The Great Stagnation and Evidence-Based Medicine
February 05, 2011 at 18:23 PM EST
For me, the Great Stagnation (Tyler’s term) or the Innovation Shortfall (my term) is concentrated in the biosciences. Here we’ve thrown enormous scientific, corporate and public resources into biosciences, and made tremendous scientific advances. Yet the prize of cutting-edge treatments seems further and further away. Take this new study, which started with a simple hypothesis about sepsis, [...]