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Examples

These are stories about specific clinical cases, diseases or disease areas that illustrate the need for fair tests of treatments.

  • A tragic epidemic of blindness in babies
  • On being sucked into a maelstrom
  • Who has diabetes?
  • No wonder she was confused
  • The classical (Halstead) radical mastectomy
  • Overdiagnosing prostate cancer
  • Discoverer of PSA speaks out
  • Selling screening
  • The Screening Circus
  • Doctors talk about guesswork in prescribing
  • Could checking the evidence first have prevented a death?
  • Academic nicety – or sensible choice?
  • My experience of Magpie
  • Impact of “me-too” drugs in Canada
  • Dodgy, devious and duped?
  • Psoriasis patients poorly served by research
  • Lay people help to rethink AIDS

If you can think of any additional examples to add to our collection, please use the Comment box below to tell us about them.

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