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A decade of reversal: an analysis of 146 contradicted medical practices

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

A medical burden of proof: Towards a new ethic

A method to determine if more than surrogate outcomes were improved: The EMR glitch experiment

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

A reality check of the accelerated approval of immune-checkpoint inhibitors

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

A systematic review of head-to-head trials of approved monoclonal antibodies used in cancer: an overview of the clinical trials agenda

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

ASCO Plenary Sessions: impact, legacy, future

scientific article published on June 2016

An Unmeasured Harm of Screening

scientific article published on October 22, 2012

Application of Medicare's New Technology Add-on Payment Program for Blinatumomab

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Are We Treating Professionalism Professionally? Medical School Behavior as Predictors of Future Outcomes

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

Assessing the Eventual Publication of Clinical Trial Abstracts Submitted to a Large Annual Oncology Meeting

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Association between treatment toxicity and outcomes in oncology clinical trials

scientific article

Authorship Inflation in Medical Publications

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Balancing Accelerated Approval for Drugs With Accelerated Withdrawal—Reply

Balloon brachytherapy for breast cancer prove that it works? Or, prove that it doesn’t?

article published in 2014

Baseline event rate, the Concorde fallacy, and the topography of cardiac risk

scientific article published on August 25, 2010

Blood-Based Screening for Colon Cancer: A Disruptive Innovation or Simply a Disruption?

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

But how many people died? Health outcomes in perspective

scientific article published on March 2015

Can a resident's publication record predict fellowship publications?

scientific article

Cancer Drugs Approved on the Basis of a Surrogate End Point and Subsequent Overall Survival

Cardiovascular primary prevention: how high should we set the bar?

scientific article

Cardiovascular risk assessment in oncological clinical trials: is there a role for centralized events adjudication?

scientific article

Caution Needed When Predicting Problem Residents

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Characteristics and Conflicts of Public Speakers at Meetings of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee to the US Food and Drug Administration

scientific article

Characteristics of Cluster Randomized Trials: Are They Living Up to the Randomized Trial?

Characteristics of Exceptional or Super Responders to Cancer Drugs

scientific article

Chest pain in the emergency department: the case against our current practice of routine noninvasive testing

scientific article published on October 2012

Clinical trial spots for cancer patients by tumour type: The cancer trials portfolio at clinicaltrials.gov

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

Clostridium difficile Diarrhea and Fecal Transplantation

article

Colorectal Cancer Survival Gains and Novel Treatment Regimens: A Systematic Review and Analysis

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Comparative Effectiveness Questions in Oncology

Conflict of interest in academic oncology: moving beyond the blame game and forging a path forward

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Counterpoint: were industry-sponsored roflumilast trials appropriate? No.

scientific article

Dense breasts and legislating medicine

scientific article published in December 2013

Disease specific productivity of american cancer hospitals

scientific article

Distinctive clinical characteristics of malignant mesothelioma in young patients.

scientific article

Do we need randomised trials for rare cancers?

Does the declining lethality of gunshot injuries mask a rising epidemic of gun violence in the United States?

scientific article

Drugs that lack single-agent activity: are they worth pursuing in combination?

Duty hour reform in a shifting medical landscape

scientific article

Effect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Conflict of Interest Policy on Information Overload

scientific article published on 25 August 2016

Emphasizing unique strengths and eliminating redundancy for research in low-income and middle-income countries: Lessons from a South American country

Ending Medical Reversal

book about an medical reversal

Estimation of US patients with cancer who may respond to cytotoxic chemotherapy

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Evaluating health system processes with randomized controlled trials

scientific article published in July 2013

Evidence-based de-implementation for contradicted, unproven, and aspiring healthcare practices

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

Failing to improve overall survival because post-protocol survival is long: fact, myth, excuse or improper study design?

Falsification End Points for Observational Studies—Reply

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Firearm legislation and gun-related fatalities

scientific article

Five Years of Cancer Drug Approvals: Innovation, Efficacy, and Costs

scientific article published in July 2015

Freedom to Innovate: The Perils of Centralized Medical Research—Reply

Further thoughts on why there are good data supporting the inferior vena cava filter

scientific article published in January 2014

Future jobs of FDA's haematology-oncology reviewers

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Handheld Ultrasounds: Pocket Sized, but Pocket Ready?

Hard-Wired Bias: How Even Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trials Can Be Skewed From the Start

scientific article

Holiday reading: The facts are the facts

scientific article published on December 2012

How should we assess the value of innovative drugs in oncology? Lessons from cost-effectiveness analyses

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Implications of Proposed Medicare Reforms to Counteract High Cancer Drug Prices

scientific article published on 5 May 2016

In Reply--Is There a Need for "Bias Police" in Industry-Sponsored Research?

scientific article published in January 2016

In reply I—Reversal of Medical Practices

Industry Funding of Cancer Patient Advocacy Organizations

article published in 2016

Interpreting the Effectiveness of Cancer Screening From National Population Statistics: Is It Sound Practice?

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Is prostate cancer screening responsible for the negative results of prostate cancer treatment trials?

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

It Is Time to Stop Screening for Prostate Cancer

Lacking the Incentive to Cure? Recurring Clostridium difficile Diarrhea and Our Reluctance to Use Fecal Transplantation

scholarly article by Nancy Ho & Vinay Prasad published April 2011 in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Long-term effects of the 2003 ACGME resident duty hour reform on hospital mortality

scientific article

Malignant

book about an cancer policies

Media coverage of medical journals: do the best articles make the news?

scientific article

Medical Debates and Medical Reversal

scientific article

Meta-Analyses of Statin Therapy for Primary Prevention Do Not Answer Key Questions: An Empirical Appraisal of 5 Years of Statin Meta-Analyses

scientific article

Modern Drug Development

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Mortality and treatment patterns among patients hospitalized with acute cardiovascular conditions during dates of national cardiology meetings

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Multiplying therapies and reducing toxicity in metastatic melanoma

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New frontiers for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

scientific article published on 19 January 2012

News Coverage of the American Cancer Society's Update to Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Non-inferiority trials: why oncologists must remain wary

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

Non-invasive, serum DNA pregnancy testing leading to incidental discovery of cancer: a good thing?

scientific article

Observational studies cannot justify the inferior vena cava filter

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Observational studies often make clinical practice recommendations: an empirical evaluation of authors' attitudes

scientific article published on 04 February 2013

Oncology Drug Advisory Committee Recommendations and the US Food and Drug Administration's Actions

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Open issues with open access publication

scientific article

Oral anticancer drugs: how limited dosing options and dose reductions may affect outcomes in comparative trials and efficacy in patients

scientific article

Perspective: The precision-oncology illusion

scientific article published in Nature

Perspective: Why There Must Be a Meditative Medicine

Perspective: beyond storytelling in medicine: an encounter-based curriculum

scientific article published in May 2010

Pragmatic trials with prespecified subgroups: what oncologists can learn from COVID-19

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Precision medicine in acute myeloid leukemia: Hope, hype or both?

scientific article

Precision medicine in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: Hype or hope?

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Precision oncology: origins, optimism, and potential

scientific article published on February 2016

Prespecified falsification end points: can they validate true observational associations?

scientific article published in January 2013

Pricing and Value of Cancer Drugs--Reply

scientific article published in September 2015

Primary care physicians' role in counseling about gun safety

scientific article

Primary chemoprevention of breast cancer: Are the adverse effects too burdensome?

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Publication trends among internal medicine residents and graduates

scientific article published in September 2012

Raise the Bar Even Higher for Primary Prevention Interventions—Reply

Rebuttal from Dr Rho et al.

scientific article

Reclaiming the morbidity and mortality conference: between Codman and Kundera

scientific article published on July 23, 2010

Regarding Empiricism and Rationalism in Medicine and 2 Medical Worldviews

Registration studies - when should patients be deemed ineligible for aggressive therapy?

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Reply to Dr. Leon: true but unrelated

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Response

Reversals of Established Medical Practices

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Rosiglitazone, medical reversal, and back to basics for diabetes

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Routine Noninvasive Testing and Highly Sensitive Troponin Immunoassays—Reply

Same Data; Different Interpretations

scientific article

Statins, Primary Prevention, and Overall Mortality

Steroids in infection: an old wives' tale

scientific article published on January 2011

Strength of Validation for Surrogate End Points Used in the US Food and Drug Administration's Approval of Oncology Drugs

scientific article

Susan Bates, M.D., and Antonio "Tito" Fojo, M.D., Ph.D.: Thirty Years of Research, Discovery, Service, and Mentorship at the National Cancer Institute

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Taking Care of Our Friends and Neighbors: DeVita's The Death of Cancer and the Challenge of Letting Go.

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Taking care of sick patients

scientific article published on July 22, 2013

The Accelerated Approval of Oncologic Drugs

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

The Cardiovascular Biomarker Conundrum

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

The Frequency of Medical Reversal

The Peltzman effect and compensatory markers in medicine

scientific article

The Reply

2014 scholarly article

The Reply

The Reply

The Strength of Association Between Surrogate End Points and Survival in Oncology: A Systematic Review of Trial-Level Meta-analyses

scientific article published on August 2015

The UK Cancer Drugs Fund Experiment and the US Cancer Drug Cost Problem: Bearing the Cost of Cancer Drugs Until It Is Unbearable.

scientific article

The Use of Superlatives in Cancer Research

The apples and oranges of cost-effectiveness

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

The declining demand for hospital care as a rationale for duty hour reform

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The diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary embolism: a metaphor for medicine in the evidence-based medicine era.

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The evidence landscape in precision medicine

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The high price of anticancer drugs: origins, implications, barriers, solutions

scientific article

The inferior vena cava filter: how could a medical device be so well accepted without any evidence of efficacy?

scientific article published in April 2013

The misguided ethics of crossover trials

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

The overdiagnosis of pneumonia

scientific article published in October 2013

The role of censoring on progression free survival: oncologist discretion advised

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

The use of gene expression profiling and mutation analysis increases the cost of care for patients with carcinoma of unknown primary; does it also improve survival?

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The withdrawal of drugs for commercial reasons: the incomplete story of tositumomab

scientific article published in December 2014

Thinking Systematically About the Off-Label Use of Cancer Drugs and Combinations for Patients Who Have Exhausted Proven Therapies

scientific article published on 08 July 2016

Translation failure and medical reversal: Two sides to the same coin.

scientific article

Treatment of Moderate to Severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa

scientific article published on July 2, 2013

US News and World Report cancer hospital rankings: do they reflect measures of research productivity?

scientific article

Use of the Word “Cure” in the Oncology Literature

Vinay Prasad on the use of exaggerated language in cancer research, and how it can mislead doctors, patients, and the public

scientific article

Wearables, Smartphones and Novel Anticoagulants: We Will Treat More Atrial Fibrillation, but Will Patients Be Better Off?

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

What constitutes an "unmet medical need" in oncology? An empirical evaluation of author usage in the biomedical literature

scientific article published on 9 February 2017

Where are randomized trials necessary: Are smoking and parachutes good counterexamples?

scientific article published in 2021

Why cancer screening has never been shown to "save lives"--and what we can do about it.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Why do we continue to adopt medical practices based on pathophysiology alone when we should be insisting on clinical trials?

Why randomized controlled trials are needed to accept new practices: 2 medical worldviews

scientific article published in October 2013

Why resident physicians stay late

scientific article published on 03 September 2013