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How clinical evidence is built

A medical claim is only as strong as the study design behind it, which is why drug development follows a defined sequence. Early trials test safety in small groups, later ones test whether a treatment works against a comparison, and the largest test whether that benefit holds across a broad and varied population. Regulators review the accumulated evidence before approving a treatment and keep collecting reports afterwards, because rare effects only become visible at scale. A compound that shows promise in a laboratory or in animals is many years and several failure points away from a prescription, and the substantial majority of candidates do not survive the journey.

Endpoints, and what they measure

Every trial measures something specific, and the choice of what to measure shapes what the result can mean. A surrogate endpoint is a marker believed to track the outcome that genuinely matters, such as a laboratory value standing in for survival or for freedom from disease. Surrogates make trials faster and cheaper, and they sometimes mislead, because moving the marker does not reliably move the outcome behind it. When a headline reports an improvement, the useful question is whether the improvement was in how people fared or in a number thought to predict how they would fare.

Public health and individual medicine

This section covers two related but genuinely distinct subjects. Individual medicine concerns what a treatment does for a patient; public health concerns what a policy does for a population, where a small effect multiplied across millions of people can outweigh a large effect on a few. The two draw on different evidence and often reach different conclusions from the same data, which is an analytical difference rather than a contradiction. Health systems, insurance, access and cost belong here as well, because whether a treatment exists and whether a given person can obtain it are separate questions with separate answers. Guidance aimed at a population is written to be right on average, which is why it can look wrong applied to any particular case, and why the two subjects are worth keeping apart even when a single study speaks to both.