{"id":4495,"date":"2016-09-29T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2016-09-29T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T13:03:32","slug":"flawed-research-tool-leads-to-faulty-medical-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4495","title":{"rendered":"Flawed Research Tool Leads To Faulty Medical Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Richard Harris for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Researchers trying to understand diseases and find new ways to treat them are running into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbsi.org\/event\/asilomar\/\">a serious problem<\/a> in their labs: One of the most commonly used tools often produces spurious results. More than 100 influential scientists met in California this week and agreed on a strategy to address the troubling issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/09\/29\/495797739\/flawed-research-tool-leads-to-faulty-medical-findings?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=35081715&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PkGJA0IniBx9wSdgumIa1GibHo5Q-6jvGnblQ-8oiW0WlIJbR_P128NlT30R1e6AEoSv7n084THTgLUSJCGV4QDLjQQ&amp;_hsmi=35081715\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"NPR logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Richard Harris for NPR) Researchers trying to understand diseases and find new ways to treat them are running into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}