Bias and Omissions Plague Medical Research
Common tactics or tricks used by drug and supplement manufacturers (or those selling these products) are to either ignore negative results or to deny their existence. The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) in Germany has reviewed research and found that this applies to all sorts of conditions, including depression, Alzheimer’s disease, type 2 diabetes, menopausal symptoms and cancer. Beate Wieseler, deputy head of IQWiG’s Drug Assessment Department, said…
