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Bad Medicine, Part 1: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations
Birth defects resulting from thalidomide led medical researchers to exclude women of child-bearing age from clinical trials. (Photo: AP/flickr) Season 6, Episode 26 This week on Freakonomics Radio: We...
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Bad Medicine, Part 2: Death By Diagnosis
(Photo: jasleen_kaur/flickr) Season 6, Episode 27 This week on Freakonomics Radio: by some estimates, medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. How can that be? And what’s to be...
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How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to the market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on “dream patients” who aren’t representative of a larger population. On the...
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How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on “dream patients” who aren’t representative of a larger population. On the...
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