PEDIATRICS Vol. 35 No. 3 March 1965, pp. 369-370
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NEWS ABOUT NEW TREATMENTS—RESPONSE AND RESPONSIBILITY

WILLIAM A. SILVERMAN M.D.

MANY THERAPEUTIC innovations are reported in general news media. Even more new treatments come to the attention of physicians in publications featuring digests and summaries of original articles; and, of course, therapeutic news is spread by ubiquitous medical advertising media and detail men. As a result of this profusion of medical news reporting it is highly probable that the physician will first learn about a new treatment from some secondary source which does not present all of the evidence on which the conclusions have been based. A recent example is found in an annotation in The Lancet which begins, "A new treatment for premature infants with hyaline membrane disease was suggested at a (recent) meeting . . . the full details have not yet reached us."