Examples!

These are stories about specific clinical cases, diseases or disease areas that illustrate the need for fair tests of treatments.

• A tragic epidemic of blindness in babies
• On being sucked into a maelstrom
• Who has diabetes?
• No wonder she was confused
• The classical (Halstead) radical mastectomy
• Overdiagnosing prostate cancer
• Discoverer of PSA speaks out
• Selling screening
• The Screening Circus
• Doctors talk about guesswork in prescribing
• Could checking the evidence first have prevented a death?
• Academic nicety – or sensible choice?
• My experience of Magpie
• Impact of “me-too” drugs in Canada
• Dodgy, devious and duped?
• Psoriasis patients poorly served by research
• Lay people help to rethink AIDS

If you can think of any additional examples to add to our collection, please use the Comment box below to tell us about them.