Health Care’s Trick Coin New York Times: OP-ED By BEN GOLDACRE February 1, 2013 … Withholding data not only misleads doctors and patients; it’s an insult to the patients who have participated in clinical trials, believing that they were helping to improve medical knowledge. Medicine routinely overcomes enormous technical challenges, and there is nothing complicated […]
And by the way, speaking of synchronicity, guess who has an op-ed piece in the New York Times today? Ben Goldacre [Health Care’s Trick Coin]. Now for a chain of hat tips: Pharmagossip by Jack Friday January 30, 2013 Knight Science Journal at MIT by Paul Raeburn January 30, 2013 Science News by Rachel Ehrenberg […]
What with the weather fronts and family medical matters, I’ve been out and about this week, so I enjoyed today’s emptiness with a roaring fire against the southern cold snap, and the space to write the last two posts. After I finished [the posts and the ham sandwich], I scanned my usual blogs and this […]
The article in the last post [gone missing…] compared the studies of the antidepressants submitted to the FDA with the ones that actually got published. But they looked at something else too, something beyond gone missing. They looked at the strength of the drug effect in the FDA version compared to the published versions. That […]
Dr. Ben Goldacre is an entertaining speaker [something of value…, another Ben/TED talk…], a journalist [Bad Science: The Guardian], and the author of several books [Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients]. He’s a major force behind AllTrials [upper left], the petition calling for […]
Update: The Tornado that might be on your evening news hit Adairsville [White Arrow]. bypassing 1boringoldman headquarters [Red Arrow] as it moved on northeast… The universe owes me one nap…
It was the best of times… Conflicts Policies And Antidepressant Prescribing Pharmalot By Ed Silverman January 29th, 2013 Do conflict of interest policies adopted by residency programs actually work? To test this notion, a group of researchers examined prescribing data for several widely promoted antidepressants and found that psychiatrists who encountered restrictive policies were less […]
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it … Edmund Burke French philosopher, Alexandre Kojève, is known for an interpretation of the philosophical giant Georg Hegel – specifically the idea that we are at the end of history. I’m way out of my depth here, but it goes something like this: "The well-known ‘End […]
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World … Christopher Columbus This is obviously a view of a limited history, from a single person, in one place, at one slice of time – inseparable from my personal history even if I tried. Maybe it’s more a remembrance of things past than history. But […]