THE UTILITY OF FUTILITY

Companies can stop studies before reaching projected enrollment numbers.  It could be a decision based on a planned interim analysis (IA) or it could be for  ‘administrative’ reasons.  The latter may not indicate that a company has fallen on hard Continue reading THE UTILITY OF FUTILITY

The Futile Quest of Proofing a Negative in the Presence of Overwhelming Absence of Harm

The cartilage damage caused by fluoroquinolones in juvenile beagle dogs is not subtle:  blister formation and erosions occur in a dose-dependent fashion resulting in reversible cartilage damage.  These lesions can be seen not just histologically but even macroscopically.  The animals Continue reading The Futile Quest of Proofing a Negative in the Presence of Overwhelming Absence of Harm