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Tracking down missing clinical trials: Tested, and found wanting

Written by David Miller

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Tracking down missing clinical trials

HALF of clinical trials do not have their results published. Those behind the TrialsTracker, a web tool created by the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, at Oxford University, hope to change this. Using clinicaltrials.gov, an American database that covers 193 countries, Ben Goldacre and Anna Powell-Smith can track automatically whether results have been put into the public domain. Proportionally, the worst culprits are government and academia. In absolute terms, the biggest offenders are two drug giants, Sanofi and Novartis, and the National Cancer Institute, an American government body. Companies that do well include Shire, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly.

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David Miller

a pharmacist, a tech enthusiastic, who explored the Internet to gather all latest information pharma, biotech, healthcare and other related industries.

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