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Remember that the FDA in the US only requires that a drug be better than placebo to be "effective" in many cases the drug company just has to show 0.1% better t
by onoj 17y ago
Remember that the FDA in the US only requires that a drug be better than placebo to be "effective" in many cases the drug company just has to show 0.1% better than placebo to get passed.
- 3pt14159 17y agoThey need to prove statistical significance. Getting a 0.1% better drug past would require a pretty large control and sample group, making the drug more expensive to continue to test. Also, the doctors are given the drug's effectiveness vs placebo, and no doctor is going to give a drug that give the patient a 50.05% rate of recovery when 50% is the base.