Showing posts with label clinical trials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clinical trials. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2015

How Manipulated Clinical Evidence Could Distort Guidelines - the Case of Statins for Primary Prevention

The new American College of Cardiology (ACC)/ American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines on the primary prevention of cardiovascular diseas...
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The Smarming of Health Care - How to Spin a Minimally Efficacious Variant on an Old Drug as New and Wonderful

A recent announcement of the approval of a new drug showed the latest ways pharmaceutical companies can spin products as new and effective w...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Fourth Time is the (Anti)Charm? - UK NICE Highlights "Uncertainties in the Evidence Base" About Sovaldi

As we have discussed, ( here , here and here ), while anger continues to build about the $1000/ pill price sought by Gilead for its new ant...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

GlaxoSmithKline's Marketing Firm Promised "Clinical Trials Could be Your Solution" to Poor Graduate Students

We have frequently raised concerns about the increasing domination of clinical research, particularly clinical trials, by those with vested ...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

"The Scent ... of a Casino" - Clinical Research Results as Fodder for Insider Trading

"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling - a ...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

When Clinical Trials are Meant for Marketing, not Science

The development of the randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) was one of the major scientific advances in clinical medicine.  RCTs provi...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

"MetroHealth, Explorys use huge patient database to revolutionize medical research"

As I have written in the past, beware claims of "revolutions" where healthcare or medical research are involved.  As in a slide in...
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