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Article: Push For Public Posting Of Clinical Trial Data Continues.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Washington Editor
WASHINGTON - A pair of House Democrats on Thursday vowed to introduce legislation that would require drug companies to publish information on ongoing clinical trials and the results, whether positive or negative.
During a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), an author of the pending legislation, said the bill would expand the FDA's current clinical trial registry to ensure that physicians, patients and the public have access to information learned in all studies.
"The legislation will also prevent pharmaceutical companies from withholding clinically ...