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Statement Before The House Of Representatives Subcommittee On Health Of The Committee On Energy And Commerce, Fred D. Ledley Jun 2014

Statement Before The House Of Representatives Subcommittee On Health Of The Committee On Energy And Commerce, Fred D. Ledley

Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Publications

Statement of Fred David Ledley, M.D.
Director, Center for Integration of Science and Industry
Professor, Natural and Applied Sciences and Management
Bentley University, Waltham, MA

Before the House of Representatives
Subcommittee on Health of the
Committee on Energy and Commerce

Hearing: 21st Century Cures: Examining the Role of Incentives in Advancing Treatments and Cures for Patients

June 11, 2014


How To Lie With (Fda) Statistics, Fred D. Ledley May 2014

How To Lie With (Fda) Statistics, Fred D. Ledley

Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Publications

The FDA approved 27 new drugs in 2013. Is this a downward trend? Is it an upward trend? Does it suggest that the pharmaceutical industry is failing, or that genomics is finally paying dividends? We revisit Darrell Huff’s 1954 classic How to Lie with Statistics for insights into these pressing questions.