Monday, November 16, 2015

Vertical Sociopathy

How pharma keeps a trove of drug trials out of public view
A third of the clinical trial results that federal regulators reviewed to approve drugs made by large pharmaceutical companies in 2012 were never publicly reported, according to a new study that grades companies on their transparency.
That's upstream.  I think we had downstream last week...
As many as a third of drug meta-analyses are written by pharma industry employees.
They bias the data pool, the experimental protocols, they restrict patient pools, skew the conclusions and then the secondary analysis, too.  


Yeah this is a big problem for us. 
Drug companies are just about the only people interested in our illness.