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Tamiflu: “a nice little earner”

BMJ 2014; 348 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2524 (Published 09 April 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g2524

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Re: Tamiflu: “a nice little earner”

I find it rather bizarre that this very important, and rather controversial, topic has more pages of comment than research data in the printed version of the BMJ. We have a 1 page summary of the important paper from the Cochrane review, but 4 pages of editorial/news, and 5 pages of further comment under "open data".

PLEASE - let the intelligent reader make their own judgement on the hard data by publishing the full article in the paper version to be read and considered at length...

Competing interests: No competing interests

11 April 2014
David A Cameron
Oncologist
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, EDINBURGH Eh4 2XU