Taxpayer funded clinical trials registry

From: Zee (zwalanga_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: 28 Dec 2004 16:53:27 -0800

The essay in the peer reviewed Public Library of Science Medicine
Journal
http://tinyurl.com/5mmfy

The press release summarizing:
http://tinyurl.com/52kfn

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OHSU researcher urges FDA to share drug info
Says drug trials database should have broader access
Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:34 AM
Reference Code: PR-20183

December 28 - PORTLAND — A researcher at Oregon Health & Science
University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center is calling
upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to share more
information provided by pharmaceutical companies regarding their
clinical drug trials.

This database could be freely accessible to health care providers,
researchers and the public. Such a move would be cost-effective and
could work in conjunction with other national clinical registry and
results database efforts already under way, said Erick Turner, M.D.,
assistant professor of psychiatry, and physiology and pharmacology in
the OHSU School of Medicine.

Turner, a former clinical reviewer of psychotropic drugs for the FDA,
put forth his recommendations in the essay "A Taxpayer-Funded Clinical
Trials Registry and Results Database: It Already Exists Within the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration," published online Tuesday in the
Public Library of Science Medicine Journal, a peer-reviewed,
open-access publication.

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