"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Undoing the Damage: This week’s New England Journal of Medicine has a notice to readers (not up at their website yet) that deplores the use of one of their articles from 1990 to promote the sale of human growth hormone over the internet. Evidently, they get more hits to that article’s abstract in a week than other articles from 1990 get in a year. As a result, they’ve posted an accompanying link to the editorial they published in 1990 pointing out the articles’ drawbacks. Think anyone will read it? posted by Sydney on
2/26/2003 09:38:00 AM
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