The report documents the spread of quinolone-resistant bacteria from food animals to humans. This transmission was associated with infections that were difficult to treat. Misleading Drug Information in Peer-Reviewed Literature. A journal article and an editorial in JAMA sound an alarm concerning misleading drug information in peer-reviewed biomedical literature. They find that research reports on drugs sometimes exaggerate benefits.
Positive results tend to be published more readily than negative ones.
Data from the same study is sometimes published more than once. Poorly designed studies are published when expert reviewers and journal editors are less than vigilant. A review of the literature supporting the use of ondansetron to prevent vomiting after general surgery found 84 studies involving 11,980 patients. Careful study of these reports, however, showed that because of duplicate publishing, there were only 70 studies that enrolled 8645 patients. The researchers examined 15 studies, including 12 in which Pfizer provided financial and other support.