Greater transparency on clinical trial results would help reduce off-label promotion—the promotion of medicines for uses for which they have not been approved. Looking at the US since 2004, I […]
Day: December 9, 2013
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 December 2013
NEJM 5 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2183 Respect: this trial collected nearly a thousand patients who survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and ended up in one of 36 intensive care units […]
Richard Smith: Should scientific fraud be a criminal offence?
At Britain’s first and only summit meeting on research misconduct in 2000, Alexander McCall Smith, a professor of medical law and ethics, argued that research misconduct (the gentlemanly phrase for […]