
269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations
Freakonomics Radio
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Fizer Blood Pressure Lowering Drug
Fizer came along and they said, we've got this fantastic new a blood pressure lowering drug. So feiser asked the all hat researchers to test whether their drug actually reduced the real world outcomes that really matter - hard attack, stroke and death. Nollys is important, i think, to recognize that feiser did nothing wrong here. It was time to toron for a very, very long time,. many, many, many years. But it was stopped early because the fiser treatment, which was just as good at lowering blood pressure, was so much worse at preventing harse attack, Stroke and Death.
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