Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Getting the bad news with the good news about a drug.
      
      Today's Philadelphia Inquirer has a good piece about drug studies that are tubed by the drug companies that sponsor them.  Here's the set-up:A doctor is thinking of trying a new drug on a 67-year-old patient because a study shows it works well in men only slightly younger. But the doctor doesn't know about a clinical trial that found serious side effects in older patients. Those results were 
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