How Well Does a Drug Work? Look Beyond the Fine Print
2014
The FDA not only approves drugs; it also approves the prescribing instructions that come along with them. For some drugs, the wad of paper filled with fine print about the risks and benefits of using the drug is accompanied by a medication guide that is supposed to summarize the main points.
This podcast is about two physicians who have been working on fact boxes for drugs that would more concisely convey a medicine's benefits and risks, much like nutrition labels for foods. They have been pushing the FDA to deliver useful and readable quantitative data about drugs to doctors and their patients.
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This podcast was one of six in a series that focused on how we interpret and communicate probability and uncertainty, produced by All Things Considered, NPR.
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How Well Does a Drug Work? Look Beyond the Fine Print
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How Well Does a Drug Work? Look Beyond the Fine Print. All Things Considered, NPR 2014; Jul 25. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/07/25/333726737/how-well-does-a-drug-work-look-beyond-the-fine-print