Cochrane Collaboration 21st Anniversary Symposium with Ben Goldacre

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The +AllTrials initiative and the consequences of unreported trial data

The +AllTrials initiative (All Trials Registered | All Results Reported) was launched in January 2013 to draw attention to the issue of unreported trial data. Thousands of clinical trials have been conducted from which no or limited data have been made available; these data are critical to enable doctors and regulators to make informed decisions about treatment. This is a serious problem for evidence-based healthcare researchers, including The Cochrane Collaboration, because we need all the evidence about a treatment to understand its risks and benefits. Without a complete picture of trial results available, information is lost, bad treatment decisions may be made, opportunities for better and more effective treatment are missed, and trials are repeated unnecessarily, duplicating effort and wasting resources. read the rest here

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Cochrane Collaboration UK and Ireland 

21st Anniversary Symposium

Ben Goldacre 

Ben Goldacre's website Bad Science on twitter

Cochrane Collaboration website and on twitter 

hat tip: 1 Boring Old Man on twitter

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Nature Podcast extra: Ben Goldacre

"oooh! It's much bigger than I expected!" Brolly_Dolly

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Adam Rutherford talks to Ben Goldacre about his new book, Bad Pharma.

 

Big Pharma Amazon UK
Bad Pharma will be released on January 8, 2013 Amazon U.S. 

Thank you Ben Goldacre for knowing:
 "I had to ruin my life to write this 90,000 word monster"

ANOTHER blog post about Ben Goldacre: Bad Pharma with a little comedy

via Bad Science: Holy cow I just touched my new book!

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Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

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MUST READ:  Here’s the foreword to my new book Ben Goldacre @ Bad Science

Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science

Bad Science Leads to Bad Medicine

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The medicalization of everyday life

Dr.  Ben Goldacre, a British doctor writing his weekly Bad Science column in The Guardian last fall, told this disturbing cautionary tale.

“In 2007, the British Medical Journal published a large, well-conducted, randomised controlled trial, performed at lots of different locations, run by publicly-funded scientists.  It delivered a strikingly positive result.  It showed that one treatment could significantly improve children’s anti-social behaviour. The treatment was entirely safe, and the study was even accompanied by a very compelling cost-effectiveness analysis. 

“But did this story get reported as front page news? Was it followed up on the health pages, with an accompanying photo feature, describing one child’s miraculous recovery, and an interview with an attractive happy mother with whom we could all identify?

“No. This story was unanimously ignored by the entire British news media, despite their preoccupation with anti-social behaviour, school performance and miracle cures, for one very simple reason: the research was not about a pill. It was about a cheap, practical parenting programme!”

And if it’s just a regular, non-drug, non-medical kind of treatment for bratty kid behaviour – like a cost-effective parenting programme – it’s not going to make money for anybody the way that a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder can. read here