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Medical Data Compound Controversy

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By Robert Steyer
TheStreet.com Staff Reporter
2/15/2005 6:46 AM EST
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This week's Food and Drug Administration advisory committee hearings on Cox-2 arthritis drugs will feature detailed, dense depictions of data that look like a statistical version of the old quiz show Who Do You Trust?

The material filed with the FDA -- as well as research published recently in medical journals and presented at scientific conferences -- is demonstrating that different people can look at the same data and come to wildly varying conclusions.