Reporting of Data, Reporting of News: Pfizer’s View

Worthwhile, if technical, column today in the Wall Street Journal, “Smoking Has Side Effects, Too.” It’s a report  by Dr. Joseph Feczko, Pfizer’s chief medical officer, on how the anti-smoking drug, Chantix, was tested and approved and how the pharmaceutical companies battle misinformation about adverse-event reports and patient safety. Patients and physicians want breakthrough medicines, and pharmaceutical companies spend years â€" and billions of dollars â€" researching and testing such medicin