I suggested last week that “meaningful” more often means “meaningless” than any of the other possible meanings that it has acquired. As for the so-called “meaningful votes” in the House […]
Month: March 2019
Peter Brindley and Matt Morgan: On the frontlines of the opiate crisis—no easy answers
Like the 1930’s comedy brothers Groucho, Chicho and Harpo, the political theorist Karl Marx was a funny old chap. The man who penned Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto actually […]
Ian Hamilton: Reclassifying pregabalin and gabapentin only moves the problem onto other drugs
The restriction of gabapentinoids will simply shift the same problems onto another set of substances, says Ian Hamilton […]
Holger J. Schünemann: All evidence is real world evidence
Clinical guidelines are often criticized for not paying enough attention to “real world evidence” (RWE) such as big data, patient generated data, data from registries, or electronic health records. Real […]
Peter Hotez: Measles in America—what’s playing out in New York State is nightmarish
Eventually, this measles epidemic will be controlled, but we will almost certainly continue to see larger and more frequent measles outbreaks in the US […]
Unreported trial of the week: Adjuvant hormonal therapy in surgically treated prostate cancer patients at high risk for recurrence (NCT00003645)
Anya Göpfert, Nick DeVito, Ben Goldacre Background The US FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA 2007) requires certain clinical trials to report their results onto ClinicalTrials.gov within one year of completion. European […]
Stop the exploitation of migrant agricultural workers in Italy
Across the whole of Italy, agriculture counts the fallen like those on a battlefield. People from different nationalities come to work in Italy in the agricultural sector.[1] They often have […]
Keep out of reach of children—the case for increasing the legal age for tobacco purchase to 21
Increasing the legal age for tobacco purchase should be combined with other measures to reduce smoking rates in young people […]
Ananda Bandyopadhyay: Why India’s triumph against polio sets the stage for global polio eradication
My life’s work has been driven by my hatred of the poliovirus, which cripples those who are the most treasured among us: children. In 2011, more than two decades after […]
Avastin for wet AMD: what will break the gridlock?
The ongoing battle between 12 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the north of England and Bayer and Novartis over the legality of offering off-label bevacizumab (Avastin) to treat wet age […]