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Assessing long‐term risk with short‐term data
Author(s) -
Wainer Howard,
Hubert Lawrence
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00523.x
Subject(s) - term (time) , medicine , operations management , engineering , quantum mechanics , physics
Keep on taking the tablets – but for how long? New drugs can be tested for only a short time, but Vioxx and Avandia proved dangerous over the long term, and patients may take such drugs for years. So how can we establish the safety of long‐term use? Howard Wainer finds that makers of light bulbs and door hinges can guide us.