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Tuesday 5 February 2013

EU lead on clinical trials comes out in favour of transparency. Hurrah!

There is a new EU Clinical Trials Regulation currently passing through parliament in Brussels. It is currently in draft form, and riddled with holes: essentially it allows companies and researchers to withhold trial results, and play fast and loose with analyses. These problems are best documented in the BMJ by one of the co-founders of Cochrane:

Withheld clinical trial results are the biggest untold scandal of the 21st century. It is modern medicine’s equivalent of bloodletting, and future generations will look back in amazement to think that we were ever so stupid as to tolerate it.

More here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

On first read this does look encouraging, although a long way to go. I hope Glenis Willmott succeeds.

Kate