&#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 company faces a pivotal clinical trial.
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Patients going under the knife face a significant risk of becoming the victim of a medical error involving medication, according to a report being released today.
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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to protect public health are fueling such heightened concern over drug safety that valuable medicines could be kept from patients, doctors said on Friday.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Antidepressant drugmakers such as Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Wyeth will have to disclose trial results suggesting a higher risk of suicide among children and teenagers taking the pills, US regulators said.
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The pharmaceutical industry made a commitment Thursday to publish more data about clinical drug trials, amid growing questions about the safety of many leading companies' medicines.
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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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A Texas doctor leaked confidential research to the makers of the popular diabetes drug Avandia weeks before a study was published tying the drug to higher heart risks, the scientific journal Nature reported Wednesday.
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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.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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The public shouldn&#39;t have to wonder if the medicines they take are going to cure them or kill them. Recent suspicions that a number of painkillers carry potential health risks suggests the agency responsible
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Editors of the world&#39;s leading medical journals said yesterday that drug companies should disclose more information about studies of new medicines.
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The world's biggest drug makers will  unveil plans on Thursday to publish more data about clinical  trials of their medicines in a bid to reassure patients about  their safety, according to industry sources.
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Britain is to overhaul and open up its  drug safety monitoring system, already viewed as one of the  better schemes worldwide, in the wake of recent scandals over  the side effects of some medicines.  Patients will in future be able to view anonymous data on  suspected adverse drug reactions on the Medicines and  Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency's (MHRA) Web site, Health  Minister Lord Warner said Monday.
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It can be incredibly difficult for patients to ferret out studies of experimental drugs that offer hope to threat their disease. There is no comprehensive database of ongoing clinical trials, but specialists offer advice for the search:
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Don&#39;t be embarrassed to question your doctor about that new prescription he&#39;s written, the National Council on Patient Information and Education advises.
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Description: A consortium of leading medical journals wants to prevent publication of clinical trial results that overemphasize positive data.