April 7, 2006
Researchers Raise Concerns About Secrecy in Company-Sponsored Clinical Trials
Nearly six years after a company pulled the plug on a clinical trial in which 10 patients suffered heart attacks and two of them died, the medical professors who ran the multisite study are still struggling to obtain all of the data so it can be analyzed and published.
The case has heightened concerns about the secrecy in which many clinical trials are run and the restraints placed on medical professors who conduct company-sponsored research. Their names and reputations lend
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