EU Trials Tracker — Who’s not sharing clinical trial results?
▻http://eu.trialstracker.net
By law, all clinical trials on the European Union clinical trials register (EUCTR) must report their results, in the registry, within a year of completion. This site tracks which universities and pharmaceutical companies are doing this, and which aren’t.
Pour que les prescriptions hors AMM (#off_label) puissent perdurer, quitte à faire courir de graves dangers aux patients.
GlaxoSmithKline pays $3bn for illegally marketing depression drug | The Independent
▻https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/glaxosmithkline-pays-3bn-for-illegally-marketing-depression-drug-7904
GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s largest drug maker, tricked and bribed doctors into prescribing children with dangerous antidepressants, it was revealed last night.
The company will pay $3bn (£1.9bn) to settle a slew of charges in the US after admitting a multi-year criminal scheme to hide unhelpful scientific evidence, manipulate articles in medical journals and lavish gifts on sympathetic doctors.
The drug at the centre of the scheme, the blockbuster pill Paxil, which is branded Seroxat in Britain, has since been banned for use by children because it can make them suicidal.