Europe votes for clinical trial transparency

On 2 April members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new law that will require all drug clinical trials in Europe to be registered and their results reported in a public database. This is a significant win for the AllTrials campaign, for which Cochrane is a principal supporter and organiser. This new law comes into effect in 2016 and as Ben Goldacre, co-founder of the AllTrials campaign, said: Contributor's Information Contributor's name:  CEAD Email address:  web@cochrane.org read more
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