Under Pressure: Are Enhanced Global Efforts Enough For Trial Transparency?
• By Ed Silverman
Increasing scrutiny is being placed on trial sponsors and regulators to improve trial data reporting. Researchers complain that, without access to specific data, results cannot be easily duplicated, which inhibits greater understanding of how medicines might work, adversely affecting treatment decisions and health care costs. Are penalties and public reprimands enough to change behavior?
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The sudden flurry of notices was startling.
Over a six-month period last year, the US Food and Drug Administration flagged two pharmaceutical companies and a clinical investigator...
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