Last year Ben Goldacre wrote a book called Bad Pharma in which he pointed out the extent to which clinical trial results are not made public.
The assumption is that these results contain information that pharmaceutical companies do not want us to know about. e.g. drugs don't work very well or have side effects.
Ben and others are calling for support to make the whole process much more open and transparent so that doctors have full information when prescribing.
Also - people who volunteer to take part in clinical trials should reasonably expect that the results will be published.
Petition:
www.alltrials.net
Article by Fergus Walsh
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21066261
National treasures. Who would you choose?
