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Companies still hiding drug trial data, medical journals say.

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Three major pharmaceutical companies are not disclosing enough information about their clinical trials and risk having those trials barred from publication, editors of several prominent medical journals said in a joint editorial in June. (See Catherine D. DeAngelis et al., Is This Clinical Trial Fully Registered? A Statement From the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, 352 New Eng. J. Med. 2436 (2005).)

In the wake of claims that the pharmaceutical industry suppressed negative research on drugs such as Vioxx and SSRI antidepressants, many consumer advocates and public health researchers have called for mandatory registrations of clinical trials. If all trials are registered at the start, they say, researchers can track them, making it harder for companies to halt trials or hide negative results.

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