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Drug Makers Don't List Their Trials

July 7, 2004 - A federal law requires that medical studies be
listed in a government database at www.clinicaltrials.org. All
studies of treatments for serious disease are supposed to be
listed.
	An FDA check against its own internal research lists
shows that in 2002, only 48% percent of industry-funded studies
for cancer treatments were listed in the database. There is no
legal penalty for not listing trials.
	A more effective registry would make sure all trial
results become public. We only recently learned that drug
makers never published many studies in which childhood anti-
depressant use failed; they only published positive results.
	Some 5754 ongoing studies - only 13% percent of them
industry funded - were listed on clinicalTrials.gov this week.

Source: AP
Source: FDA