Participants Left Uninformed in Some Halted Medical Trials
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Drug and medical device makers will not be forced to disclose the results of clinical trials on some products that never reached the marketplace.
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A specific combination of drugs produced such encouraging results in blacks with heart disease that the trial was halted early so all the participants could take advantage of the therapy.
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Academic institutions and researchers are widely viewed as impartial actors in drug trials. But that independence often comes with strings attached.
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Three out of five doctors in a Jerusalem study admit to giving their patients placebos to see whether believing in these ineffective medications will improve their conditions, according to an article published in the latest issue of the British Medical
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Many doctors prescribe medicine without providing detailed information about it to patients, a new study suggests.
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Neurologists urge caution upon reports of a successful therapy.
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A study aimed at determining whether some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped
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More openness is needed over clinical drug trial results  to stop them being distorted, leading medical journals say.
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Many doctors who were sanctioned by a medical board were later paid for research by drug makers.
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Do clinical trials actually benefit the volunteers who take part? Is scientific research used as a tool by political spin doctors?
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An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease.
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NEW YORK  - Despite being at increased risk   for illness and death, renal disease patients are frequently   excluded from randomized trials looking at treatments for   cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a report released   this week.
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In a recent trial, a pain medication wasn't as effective as had been hoped.
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The initiative is part of an effort to ferret out unpublished research consucted by pharmaceutical companies that finds medications to be ineffective or dangerous.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Just-released data from a trial that was stopped early in 2004 for safety reasons is re-igniting debate on the safety of two popular painkillers.
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Editors of major medical journals  joined forces on Wednesday to make researchers and companies  register all clinical trials when they begin so unflattering or  unclear results cannot later be covered up.
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Waiting for subjects to die is a somber part of the oncology clinical trial process.