I'm not so sure it is a matter of being truthful, Harry, as the stats that are reported are accurate.

It is more a matter of what numbers are more relevant to us as consumers.

At a minimum, I want to know the average number of people who benefited, over & above the ones that saw just as much benefit by using placebo.

What they are presenting though, is a number relative to those on placebo. So, if placebo reduced relapses by 20%, and the drug reduced relapses by 30%, they advertise this as a 50% improvement [B].

30% - 20% = 10% --> 10%/20% = 50% improvement . . . wow!

People misunderstand this to mean that there IS a 50% improvement over using nothing.

The bottom line is that only 10% of the people did better then those on placebo or nothing, right?

But, many would argue "this is the way it is done".

Cherie