Clinical Drug Trials Helpful or Harmful? Dilemma of Using Drugs to Prevent Diseases in People Who are at Risk but Otherwise Healthy, Especially When the Drugs Have Serious Side Effects
Host: Nick Adams; Reporter: Joe Palca Reprinted with permission of National Public Radio NOAH ADAMS, host: Any doctor will tell you that preventing a disease is better than treating one. But disease prevention can be tricky. Virtually anything you do to lower the risk for one disease raises the risk of something else.