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Drug Companies Not Reporting Medical Studies

  • July 06, 2004

The drug industry is largely ignoring a federal law requiring that thousands of medical studies be listed on a government database, federal research suggests. The Internet-based database, ClinicalTrials.gov, opened in 2000. It's not meant to be a comprehensive list, but any study of a treatment's effectiveness against a serious disease is supposed to be listed. However, in 2002, just 48 percent of industry-funded studies for cancer therapies alone were reported to the public database. In...