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Biotech / Medical : IPIC
IPIC 0.00010000.0%Dec 18 4:00 PM EST
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To: Terry Cheek who wrote (685)9/18/1997 9:22:00 AM
From: WeirdPro Randy   of 1359
 
FDA echocardiogram data biased....from WSJ today:
<<Even as scientists race to untangle the serotonin-heart valve link, new evidence emerging this week suggests the research that led to last week's recall may be flawed. That research showed that 32% of 291 people who used the diet pills had heart-valve abnormalities identified by a diagnostic test called an echocardiogram.

But Richard Bowen, a diet doctor from Naples, Fla., says that a number -- he doesn't know exactly how many -- of the 200 patients he contributed to the FDA report were tested specifically because he had observed heart murmurs in them. "My group was a biased sample. I told them (the FDA) that.">
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