Negative results in bio-medicine are urgently needed

Tomasz Drewa

doi:10.4081/scs.2011.e13

Letters to the Editor

3 October 2011

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011)

https://doi.org/10.4081/scs.2011.e13

Negative results in bio-medicine are urgently needed

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Tomasz Drewa

tomaszdrewa@wp.pl

Tissue Engineering Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland.

The development of statistical models and blind studies in medicine has changed our view of patient management. Evidence Based Medicine data now provide guidelines for treatment modalities. Meta-analytical studies performed on large populations have consolidated this trend. Are all these factors enough to promote further development in modern biomedical science? It seems not. In bio-medicine, analysis of negative results is valuable and stimulates the development of new methods and techniques.