This is going to blow your mind. A new study from the National Institutes of Health shows numerous medical practices encouraged by doctors have proven to be absolutely ineffective.

So did they once work and now have been improved upon? Nope! The study found that over the last 10 years articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine have proven many accepted medical practices never worked, never helped patients and have ultimately eroded trust in the medical profession.

This extensive study from Dr. Vinay Prasad and his team of researchers reviewed more than 1,300 original articles from 2001 to 2010. They focused on articles that described a new medical practice or tested an established one and evaluated a screening or diagnostic test, a procedure or surgery, a medication, or any change in the way health care is systemically provided.

Dr. Prasad called his findings very disappointing. “When medical practices are instituted in error, most often on the basis of premature, inadequate, biased, and conflicted evidence, the costs to society and the medical system are immense,” wrote Prasad and his team.

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