&#39;Drug Trials Secrecy Putting Patients at Risk&#39;
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Patients are being put at risk because of the secrecy of drug companies which refuse to publish the results of clinical trials, it was claimed today.
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The move comes ahead of a House hearing this week where, it is expected, drug companies will be excoriated for refusing to publish unfavorable clinical trial results.
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GlaxoSmithKline yesterday said it would publish all details of its clinical drug trials after being accused of concealing information that its leading antidepressant could be harmful to children.
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Years before its heart drug failed in massive human trials, there were indications such drugs might be dangerous.
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British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline today agreed to make public information about all its clinical drug trials following accusations that it misled doctors about the safety of an anti-depressant for children.
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New evidence is raising questions about the tests used to prescribe the breast cancer drug Herceptin, which was initially seen as a model for tailored medicine.
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A vast majority of patients and doctors would surely agree that pharmaceutical companies ought to reveal the results of clinical trials that suggest that their drugs don&#39;t work or may even be harmful.
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Patients with serious injuries are put at risk by untested and potentially dangerous treatments, experts say.
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The randomized clinical trial, widely considered the most reliable biomedical research method, can have significant drawbacks, a new study suggests.
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A clinical trial of Zetia, a widely used cholesterol drug, has raised questions about its effectiveness and the behavior of pharmaceutical companies that conducted the study.
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Users of an anti-arthritis drug linked by a study to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes are urged not to panic.
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Web data that showed a risk for a diabetes drug is likely to spur more efforts to publicly disclose drug study results.
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A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from companies that make drugs and medical devices that come under study. What's more, many of those with conflicts rarely or never disclose their financial ties, researchers found.
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Concerns raised over senior officers' threat to patient confidentiality.
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Editors of major medical journals  joined forces on Wednesday to make researchers and companies  register all clinical trials when they begin so unflattering or  unclear results cannot later be covered up.
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Drug and medical device makers will not be forced to disclose the results of clinical trials on some products that never reached the marketplace.
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A report to be released on Friday finds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of patients who help test drugs in clinical trials, The New York Times reports.