Does A Clinical Trial Database Belong On The Internet?
Sep 18th, 2007 by Patrick Valtin
I recently got this information from CCHR Florida. It is worth to take a look and vote, you may make the difference!!!
There is a push by the White House (apparently) to block one of the key FDA reform issues — which is disclosing Clinical Drug Trials on a public database which would be available to you on the net.
Vote YES now here: http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/09/does-a-clinical-trial-database-belong-on-the-internet/ and pass this on to all you know so it can be forwarded to Congress.
Article posted 18th Sept. 2007 by Ed Silverman on www.pharmalot.com:
As the Sept. 21 deadline for renewing PDUFA draws ever closer - and with it, the threat of layoffs of nearly 2,000 FDA employees - the behind-the-scenes squabble over creating a clinical trial database apparently remains unresolved. The White House opposes the House version of the FDA reform bill, because it claims the FDA and NIH wouldn’t be able to validate the accuracy of the trial results posted; results data is too technical, and lay summaries may have too much bias.
The House bill would require a public technical trial results database, as well a lay summary of a drug trials, on the Internet. Negotiations are under way over other issues as well, such as preemption. The White House opposition, however, comes after a stretch in which various drugmakers have been accused of hiding data. The push for the House proposal follows the logic that more information is better than less. But would that be true in this case? What do you think?