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Editorial
. 2004 Dec;1(3):e60.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0010060.

A taxpayer-funded clinical trials registry and results database

Erick H Turner  1
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Editorial

A taxpayer-funded clinical trials registry and results database

Erick H Turner. PLoS Med. 2004 Dec.

Abstract

It already exists within the US Food and Drug Administration, argues a former clinical reviewer of psychotropic drugs at the FDA

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: The author is on the speaker's bureaus of Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has provided outside consulting to Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, and Sepracor. He has also received funding for clinical drug trials, which can be spent only for research purposes and which has no effect on his income, from Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and DOV Pharmaceuticals.

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Comment in

  • A Canadian perspective.
    Till JE. Till JE. PLoS Med. 2005 Mar;2(3):e83. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020083. Epub 2005 Mar 29. PLoS Med. 2005. PMID: 15783265 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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