![]() ![]() This sort of huge discrepancy indicates that studies sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry produce positive results that cater to industry interests. Of the industry-funded studies, 85 percent yielded positive results, compared to only 50 percent of the government-funded trials. The survey asked two main questions: Did the results favor the test drug? Were they funded by the industry? This bias becomes startlingly evident when you look at the results of Harvard and Toronto researchers’ 2010 survey of over five hundred medicinal trials. Trials that are funded by pharmaceutical companies are more likely to produce results skewed in their favor. Unfortunately, however, not all trials are created equally. So how do we know how effective drugs are? Often we look to medical trials to determine whether certain medicines are worth taking. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |