Stroke studies where the results are positive or neutral are more likely to get published than studies with negative results, according to an analysis of 45 years worth of studies published in the September 26, 2006, issue of Neurology...
"Corporate profit incentives and academic concerns must be overridden by our ethical obligation to the people who participate in these studies, future patients and the scientific community. Rapid publication of negative studies may spare patients from exposure to useless or even harmful treatments, and from participation in futile studies." (said author David S. Liebeskind, MD, of UCLA Stroke Center)
~"Hey we're doing science here!"
Posted by Stubbornson at September 25, 2006 01:57 PM