Evidence based medicine is broken

Evidence based medicine (EBM) wrong footed the drug industry for a while in the 1990s. We could fend off the army of pharmaceutical representatives because often their promotional material was devoid of evidence. But the drug industry came to realise that EBM was an...

Is drug research trustworthy?

Many researchers maintain close financial ties to the drug companies that stand to gain from the results of their research. US Congress passed the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which, starting in 2013, will compel pharmaceutical firms and medical device...