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Specific guide to this web site for:


 1.  Medical School
      Educators 
      in Statistics


 2.  Medical Students

 3.  Science media writers

 4.  High School & College
     Statistic Teachers


   Misadventures:


1. Harvard led study

2. JACC study 

   (J. of Amer. Coll.
   Cardio.)


3. NEJM cath study

4. Amer. J. of Cardio.
    review of literature

5.
ALLHAT
    controversy
 

6.
Oat bran study

7.
Pregnancy & Alcohol

8.
Are Geminis really
   
different?
      
9. Columbia 'Miracle' Study  
                                                 

Additional Topics:

Celebrex

Limitations of Meta-Analyses

Large Randomized Clinical Trials

Tale of Two Large
Trials

Meta-analyses Bearing False Gifts

Network meta-analyses






 

 

 


                About the Author of this Website


Eric Roehm, M.D., F.A.C.C.

 
Dr. Roehm is board certified in cardiology. He went to medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas for four years. He then spent three years at the University of New Mexico program in Albuquerque, New Mexico in an internal medicine residency. He then did a fellowship in cardiac rehabilitation through Harvard Medical School- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass. Gen. Hospital, and Mass Rehab Hospital for one year. This was followed by a cardiology fellowship at the University of Texas at San Antonio for two years. Since completing his training, he has been in private practice as a cardiologist for the past 20 years. He has a long standing interest in the proper interpretation of medical trials and studies.

The opinions voiced on this web site are those of the author, unless specified otherwise.

Disclosure:

The author has nothing to disclose, including any financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies. There is no outside funding source for this web site. This web site and the information on this site have been created by the author, unless specifically noted otherwise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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