Public is baffled, drug firms admit By Steve Connor, Science Editor 09 December 2003 British drugs companies admitted yesterday that it is very difficult for the public to find out how well prescription medicines work. In a survey of ten firms carried out by The Independent, none could cite where the layman could easily discover how well products performed in clinical trials. The findings come a day after a senior executive with Britain's leading drugs company admitted that most prescription drugs do not work for most people.Most data on "efficacy" - how well the drug did in clinical trials -...