Ben Goldacre

What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe

Author: Editorial 2nd February 2018 0 Comments

TED Talk (13 minute video) … The video’s producers say: “When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive…
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a coherent system

academic publishing, antidepressants, Ben Goldacre, CTIMP (Clinical Trial of an Investigational Medicinal Product), drug testing, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Psychiatric Drugs, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), reboxetine, Research, TED Talk, videos

Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It

Author: Editorial 3rd November 2017 0 Comments

In this book (published 2013), Dr. Ben Goldacre (psychiatrist) argues that: “Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by…
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collaborative practice, Key posts

Ben Goldacre, books, CTIMP (Clinical Trial of an Investigational Medicinal Product), pharmaceutical companies, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs)