Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
Norman Swann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's just mind-boggling to think how you would change the situation in one of the most populous countries.
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So what's afoot?
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Because the world shares in this issue.
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We all should have an interest in this issue because we're all going to be taking medications which might
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But it's still up to the institution, the hospital, the university to create the ethics committee and they've got to be independent of the pharmaceutical industry.
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How
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Dr. Amar Jasani is the founder of the Center for Studies in Ethics and Rights in Mumbai.
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But Western countries can't be complacent about the trials they conduct.
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Just before Christmas, a scandal was exposed about the trials conducted into Tamiflu, the influenza drug widely stockpiled at major cost.
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It turns out there's no reliable evidence that Tamiflu prevents the complications of influenza, and the manufacturer has been reluctant to release the raw data from Tamiflu trials.
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Then there's the way researchers write up their trials, and an eminent statistician claims there are worrying gaps.
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He's Professor Doug Altman, who directs the University of Oxford's Centre for Statistics in Medicine.
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you've analyzed the extent to which that is actually done in scientific papers, which is what we all rely upon.
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extent to which they're actually reported when you do a survey.
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the prevention of heart attacks, they've defined that up front.
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That's what we're trying to do here is prevent a heart attack or somebody dying of a heart attack.
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That's what we're going to do.
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And here's how we measured it so that you know they didn't change the
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to which that simple thing, which is what you call defining the end point of your study clearly, how well does that adhere
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