Opinion | Don’t Delay News of Medical Breakthroughs - The New York Times

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Summary:

"Medicine needs to change its approach to releasing new, important information. Throughout science we are seeing more rapid modes of communication. The traditional approach was not to publish until everything was finalized and ready to be chiseled in stone. But these sorts of delays are unnecessary with the Internet. Moreover, although all the trial data has yet to be tabulated, an analysis was considered sufficiently definitive to lead independent experts to stop the multimillion-dollar study.

We believe that when there is such strong evidence for a major public health condition, there should be rapid release of the information that led to the decision to stop the trial. This approach could easily be accomplished by placing the data on the N.I.H. website or publishing the data on such platforms as bioRxiv.org, which enables fast, open review by the medical community...."

Link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/opinion/dont-delay-news-of-medical-breakthroughs.html

Updated:

06/07/2019, 06:27

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oa.medicine oa.speed oa.preprints oa.biorxiv oa.biology oa.versions

Date tagged:

06/07/2019, 10:27

Date published:

09/17/2015, 06:27