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Specific guide to this web site for:

 1.  Medical School
      Educators 
      in Statistics

 2.  Medical Students

 3.  Science media writers

 4.  High School & College
     Statistic Teachers

   Misadventures:

1. Harvard led MI study

2. JACC study 
   (J. of Amer. Coll.
   Cardio.)

3. NEJM cath study

4. Amer. J. of Cardio.
    review of literature

5. ALLHAT
    controversy 

6. Oat bran study

7. Pregnancy & Alcohol

8. Are Geminis really
    different?
      
9. Columbia 'Miracle' Study  
                                                 

Additional Topics:

Celebrex

Limitations of Meta-Analyses

Large Randomized Clinical Trials

Tale of Two Large
Trials

Advocate meta-analyses

Network meta-analyses

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Disclaimer:

The current standard recommendation for a pregnant woman is to refrain completely from drinking any alcoholic beverages.  A woman should consult with her OB-Gyn doctor  or health care provider about all issues relating to her specific pregnancy.  This web site does not attempt to evaluate the complete literature regarding alcohol intake and pregnancy, rather several selected studies are examined in detail.  

Furthermore, even if there is no reliable evidence existing that low level alcohol ingestion adversely affects a fetus in nonsmokers, this does not exclude some subtle, but significant, developmental abnormality being present.  Proving the negative, i.e. the absence of adverse effects in this situation, is extremely difficult. (This is one of the reasons why there are so few new drugs in the modern era that have been deemed safe for use in pregnancy.)

This web site does not advocate the ingestion of alcohol by women during pregnancy.

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