Drug research routinely suppressed, study authors find

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Drug research routinely suppressed, study

authors find

By Fauber of the Journal Sentinel

http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/drug-research-routinely-suppressed-study-authors-find-qd3kfnn-136625848.html

Drug research, even from clinical trials sponsored by the federal

government, routinely is suppressed, harming patients and increasing

health care costs, according to new data highlighting an ethical

controversy that continues to plague the field of medicine.

" The current situation is a disservice to research participants,

patients, health systems and the whole endeavor of clinical

medicine, " according to an editorial accompanying the papers

published in the British Medical Journal.

Turning up the heat, the journal, in an editorial, posed a remedy that is

likely to get the attention of doctors who take part in clinical trial

research.

" Concealment of data should be regarded as the serious ethical

breach that it is, and clinical researchers who fail to disclose data

should be subject to disciplinary action by professional

organizations, " wrote Lehman of the University of Oxford,

and Loder, a BMJ editor....

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See also:

Fraud Case Seen as a Red Flag for Psychology Research

By BENEDICT CAREY

Published: November 2, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/health/research/noted-dutch-psychologist-stapel-accused-of-research-fraud.html

A well-known psychologist in the Netherlands whose work has been

published widely in professional journals falsified data and made up

entire experiments, an investigating committee has found. Experts say the

case exposes deep flaws in the way science is done in a field,

psychology, that has only recently earned a fragile

respectability....

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See also:

foia: CDC collusion with " Pediatrics " regarding

thimerosal data

http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/111025_PR10_ScandalExposedInMajorStudyOfAutismMercuryb.pdf

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