I have just had a letter from my GP, which informs me that: “Flu vaccination provides the best protection against an unpredictable virus, which infects many people and may cause serious illness and deaths each year.” The NHS Choices website tells us that: Flu vaccination is available every year on the NHS to help protect adults and […]
A report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee concludes that information is routinely withheld from doctors and researchers about the methods and results of clinical trials on treatments currently prescribed in the United Kingdom (1). Invariably the bodies responsible for the approval of new drugs only have access to the results of studies
One of the key issues to emerge from the recent spat between Sir Rory Collins and the BMJ about statins (1) has been the refusal of the Cholesterol Treatments Trialists’ Collaboration (CTT) at Oxford University to allow open access to the original clinical trial data. The independent panel set up by the editor of the