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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Proposed mandatory public registry of clinical trials

DRUG RESEARCH: Legislators Propose a Registry to Track Clinical Trials From Start to Finish. Jennifer Couzin. Science 17 September 2004: 1695. [Subscription needed to read fulltext.] Referred to as the Waxman-Markey bill, the proposed legislation would:
require all US drug trials to register at launch;
list participant eligibility requirements;
list funding sources;
post results, including unpublished results;
impose fines on noncompliant sponsors of clinical trials.