The US government is proposing to toughen the rules governing medical trials involving human subjects, to help ensure the trials are registered in advance and their results are reported to the public, according to a press release from the National Institute of Health. The proposed changes come in the wake of what the director of the NIH called an ongoing “disappointing track record” with respect to public disclosure.
1 Boring Old Man has quoted from and linked to a number of sources discussing the new rules. “If the NIH and FDA really do everything they say here, they would be starting a ball rolling down the rightest of hills to begin cleaning up this wrongest of circumstances,” comments 1 Boring Old Man. “And speaking of about time, it’s long overdue – but a welcome move in the very rightest of directions…”
speaking of about time!… (1 Boring Old Man, November 19, 2014)
HHS and NIH take steps to enhance transparency of clinical trial results (National Institute of Health Press Release, November 19, 2014)
Anyone wants to bet on that it will end up as some window-dressing meaningless piece of legislation which will be full of pretty phrases with no teeth behind them?
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You and I both know that the drug companies have their minions working on this one already. The FDA has become a laugh when it comes to protecting the American people from unsafe drugs and medical practices. I suspect that many in the FDA are in the pockets of the drugs companies to begin with when you have people retiring from high positions in the FDA and moving right over onto the governing boards of Big Pharma. It’s disgusting and we are the ones paying the price in more than one way.
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If it has any teeth, they will be dentures, removed at the NIH’s discretion dependent upon whose PDUFA money is being gored.
http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/UserFees/PrescriptionDrugUserFee/ucm152775.htm
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