269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 4 a.m.

b'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 other hand, sometimes the only thing worse than being excluded from a drug trial is being included.'