MJS: Drug research routinely suppressed, study authors find

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Drug research routinely suppressed, study authors findBy 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....