"No longer possible to believe much of clinical research..."

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dlb823
dlb823 Member Posts: 9,430
edited June 2014 in Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results

I don't suppose this is new news, but I found it a bit chilling, considering who it's coming from this time...

http://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/

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  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 9,430
    edited July 2012

    Oops!  Sorry, that link doesn't work, which made me realize the article (posted today by a doctor friend on FB) is dated 2009.  Let me try to find an active link to it.  It's well worth a read.

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  • Megadotz
    Megadotz Member Posts: 302
    edited July 2012

    There's a trailing space in the original link -- I backed out the &nsbp; that showed up in the unable to find page and using that was able to get to article.  You just need to edit the link and make sure the last character is the slash.

     Hope this helps.  

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  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 9,430
    edited July 2012

    Thanks, Megadotz.  I just redid the link, and it should work now.  But if it doesn't get you to the page, you can do this...

    On the page it takes you to, under "Archives" enter November 2009.

    Then it's the top story under the "Most Popular" heading. 

    It's basically medical research insiders telling us why we can't necessarily trust the published results of clinical research.  

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  • coraleliz
    coraleliz Member Posts: 1,523
    edited July 2012

    The link now works. Thanks. Very disturbing, especially if you follow some of the additional reading links at the bottom of the page. I have a friend who's married to an oncology nurse. I always was troubled by the wining & dining the pharmacuetical companies did. That's just the tip of the iceberg, I guess.

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  • luv_gardening
    luv_gardening Member Posts: 1,393
    edited July 2012

    This was posted recently without anyone else commenting, but I wonder about the 600 unreported adverse reactions from clinical trial participants which may have included Herceptin trials.

    EMA Investigating Deficiencies In Roche Safety Reporting

    From the Mail Online report...

    The drugs involved include Herceptin, given to about 10,000 breast cancer patients in Britain, and Lucentis, which is used to treat about 20,000 UK patients a year with age-related vision loss. The NHS pays Roche millions of pounds for these treatments every year.
     

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  • luv_gardening
    luv_gardening Member Posts: 1,393
    edited July 2012

    Then there's the classic study by John Ioannidis.

    Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science 

    I do appreciate medical research and the marvelous medical advances that have resulted, but we still need to retain our critical thinking skills and be alert to possible errors or worse in research.

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