WHO calls on scientists to stop withholding results of clinical trials | The Verge

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-04-16

Summary:

"The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a statement demanding more transparency in scientists' reporting of clinical trials. The statement updates and expands the WHO's position, adding specific timelines for scientists to register the outcome and methods of clinical trials. In an accompanying commentary, science writer and open science advocate Ben Goldacre said that the WHO's decision was 'powerful and welcome' and that it 'represents important progress on a long-standing and global structural problem' ..."

Link:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/14/8409725/clinical-trials-transparency-who-ben-goldacre

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.policies oa.who oa.data oa.clinical_trials oa.medicine oa.biomedicine oa.pharma

Date tagged:

04/16/2015, 10:42

Date published:

04/16/2015, 06:42