Health Care Renewal on the WSJ’s editorial on Nissen and Avandia:

So the Wall Street Journal’s new whirl has kept the Avandia spin cycle merrily revolving. This spin cycle continues to distract from what I think, in my humble opinion, are really the major questions.

The first question is clinical: what are the benefits and harms of rosiglitazone as a treatment of Type 2 diabetes, and therefore for which patients under what circumstances should this drug be used?

The second question is about policy: what barriers, if any, have prevented physicians and patients from getting the best possible answer to the first question, and what can be done about them?