Reply #29: Here is an example of a drug trial stopped for the same reason. [View All]

[Stuart G]

It was the late 80s,and Bayer had decided to prove if asprin could, as many had said, help prevent heart attacks.
Best kind of trial, double blind, was performed on those who had already had a heart attack and were at grave risk for another.

Now, somewhere there is a link, someone might be able to find it, but, they stopped the study........

halfway through for the same reason ...results were too good. Clearly asprin did indeed reduce the risk of heart attacks among those who were at risk for a second or third. Lucky indeed, this stuff was in the public domain and the price did not increse.

Oh, by the way, there were rumors of this effect of asprin in the late 40s or early 50s, but since there were no big bucks to be
made, no one was willing to pay for the study.... not the government...not the doctors....nobody..So if the study had been done in the 60s, tens of thousands would have not had attacks that did. oh well....