Even as a Congressional committee was hearing testimony about the use of antidepressants in children and about FDA and drug companies' decisions not to disclose some negative study results, 11 medical journals announced a new plan for full transparency of ALL trial results, including negative findings.
Just think of how many positive-only trial results were published in the past, without even a wink toward the negative findings that were buried? Just think of how many journalists were duped into accepting and publishing only the positive news? And just think how many news and health care consumers were not told the whole truth? And, as a result, how many people were hurt by making decisions based on incomplete evidence and deception?
Posted by schwitz at September 10, 2004 01:54 PM