In a totally unrelated story, the tea kettle below was in the news this week. See if you can see what the controversy was about.
Here is the story. Can you see the resemblance?
Monday, June 3, 2013
Drug Trial Shenanigans
There was a lot of interest on drug trials today, no surprise. There was some concern that drug safety would be compromised if some drugs were allowed to be approved quicker. However, this assumes that our current system is satisfactory. Here is a TED talk which exposes the flaws in our current drug trials. It may be that we would be no worst off if the drug trails were performed quicker.
In a totally unrelated story, the tea kettle below was in the news this week. See if you can see what the controversy was about.
Here is the story. Can you see the resemblance?
In a totally unrelated story, the tea kettle below was in the news this week. See if you can see what the controversy was about.
Here is the story. Can you see the resemblance?
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Negative trials are one thing, but I recall drug companies accumulating negative side effects on some drugs for years? after the drug was on the market and the companies had no responsibility to bring this data to the FDA.
ReplyDeleteOne diabetes drug had toxic effects on the liver that were too infrequent to be detected in the trials but too frequent to be ignored when widely prescribed. ref: Rethinking Aging by N. Hadler MD. Hopefully this oversight has been remedied.
Does the tea kettle look like Hilter to you?
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