Showing posts with label Medical Journals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical Journals. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Drug Companies Hide Trial Results

Dear Reader,

Everyone who takes a prescription drug is stepping into the unknown. I mean EVERYONE. Including your doctor.

Your doctor MIGHT have a clue about the drugs he's prescribing. But that's the best you can expect. A clue.

That's because almost nobody outside of the inner circle of drug company employees gets a complete look at drug company trials.

Here's how trial transparency crusader Dr. Ben Goldacre puts it in a recent New York Times article… If you flip a coin, but hide it every time it comes up tails, it looks like the result is always heads.

Silence is golden