[greeneyes]

When you have someone dying trying something that “may” work is better then doing nothing.
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Absolutely agree.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Eighty percent improvement is considered the base line for something to be an official treatment. It is an arbitrary number decided on by Congress. It is what your insurance will pay for because Congress has said they must. It has nothing to do with medicine or patient care.

But it is being used by hospitals and the doctors they own as a standard for treatment.

There are several drugs out there that show a sixty percent chance of improvement for some very nasty diseases. It will take a brave doctor to suggest that you try them because there are no "controlled studies" showing they work.

The reason there are no controlled studies is because the companies that make the drug know they will never reach the 80% gold standard so why waste money with a study.