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Bero and team reveal incomplete reporting of clinical drug trial data
By UCSF School of Pharmacy Editorial Staff / Mon Dec 8, 2008
Research by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Lisa Bero, PhD, and UCSF colleagues Kristen Rising, MD, and Peter Bacchetti, PhD, have found that the information that is readily available to health professionals in the scientific literature on clinical drug trials is incomplete and potentially biased. The results of their observational study appeared in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, November 24, 2008 online and have subsequently attracted international media attention.
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Reporting Bias in Drug Trials Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration: Review of Publication and Presentation, PLoS Medicine, November 24, 2008
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- Psych Problem #2: Cooking the Books, Wired Science blog, November 25, 2008
- Drug Companies Cook Books, Misleading Doctors, David Dob's Smooth Pebbles blog, November 26, 2008
- Absence of Evidence, The Economist, November 27, 2008
- What You Don't Know About a Drug Can Hurt You, Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2008
- UCSF says reports on drug trials skew positive, San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2008
- Publication Bias Found Among Trials Submitted To FDA: New Study, Science Daily, November 26, 2008
- A New Year's Resolution for the FDA: Kick the Drug (Company) Habit, The Huffington Post, January 12, 2009
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