WDDTY- Big Pharma hides the results when drugs don’t work
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Drug companies are hiding research that has found their drugs aren’t working, and instead are publishing only the positive studies. The effects of one cancer drug were over-estimated by 45 per cent through this practice.
The concealment often happens during the early stages of a drug’s trial, usually when it is being tested on animals—and it often creates false hope as well as being a waste of money as expensive human studies are then initiated.
But only around 5 per cent of ‘promising’ cancer drugs and 20 per cent of heart drugs are ever licensed, suggesting the concealment is commonplace, say researchers from McGill University in Canada...............................
Drug companies are hiding research that has found their drugs aren’t working, and instead are publishing only the positive studies. The effects of one cancer drug were over-estimated by 45 per cent through this practice.
The concealment often happens during the early stages of a drug’s trial, usually when it is being tested on animals—and it often creates false hope as well as being a waste of money as expensive human studies are then initiated.
But only around 5 per cent of ‘promising’ cancer drugs and 20 per cent of heart drugs are ever licensed, suggesting the concealment is commonplace, say researchers from McGill University in Canada...............................
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