Personalized medical practices will increasingly be based on scientific evidence gained from population-based longitudinal studies and clinical research studies such as randomized clinical trials.
Christine Brunswick, representing the National Breast Cancer Coalition, said: "The F.D.A.'s decision on Avastin must be based on scientific evidence from well-done trials and cannot be based on any one individual story, no matter how compelling".
Medical practice has now entered the era of "evidence-based medicine," characterized by an increasing societal belief that clinical practice should be based on scientific information rather than intuition or opinion.
But decisions must be based on scientific evidence.
The decisions are supposed to be based on scientific evidence.
To what extent should drug policy be based on scientific evidence?
Second, programmes should be based on scientific evidence and measurable outcomes.
Congressional leaders and the Bush administration have recently insisted even more strongly that policy be based on scientific research.
While many speakers repeatedly admonished that AIDS policy must be based on scientific evidence, they missed this point.
"You'd think the law would create rules stating that health claims must be based on scientific evidence.
According to the methodology of naturalism, such scenes and dramas had to be based on scientific observation and documentation, and presented without a moralising commentary.
