BMJ Open Data Campaign
6th June 2013 Medical student Alice Buchan talks about the BMJ Open Data Campaign and why doctors cannot make evidence-based decisions without all the data. You can read the full blog on the Students 4...
View ArticleDrug safety relies on people like David tackling the Goliaths of big pharma
10th June 2013 By Edwin Gale, University of Bristol In 2001 I met David Graham, an official from the US Food and Drug Administration, in a car park in Washington. I wanted him to shed light on why the...
View ArticleRIAT initiative for publication of historical clinical trial findings
14th June 2013 The RIAT (restoring invisible and abandoned trials) initiative is launched by BMJ, PLOS and researchers today. It is a call to action to companies and academic funders to publish, or...
View ArticleNegative results in medical research and clinical trials
11th June 2013 A brief interview with Dr Ben Goldacre explaining how medical research and patient treatment are affected by the lack of publication of negative data. You can read the full interview on...
View ArticleDrug companies have a year to publish their data, or we’ll do it for them
17th June 2013 By Tom Jefferson, Cochrane Collaboration As a doctor it’s my job to prescribe lotions and potions. To do so, I read information about drug trials in books and medical journals to keep me...
View ArticleAllTrials on the BBC Daily Politics today
19th June 2013 Drug firms should publish all of their scientific trials, and not just those they want to put in the public domain, says Dr Ben Goldacre in this short video about the AllTrials campaign....
View ArticleMedtronic and Yale open data project
Medtronic and Yale open data project 19th June 2013 US company Medtronic has just heard the results from its groundbreaking project on clinical trial transparency. Two years ago Medtronic gave all the...
View ArticleEuropean medicines regulator asks for views on access to data
European medicines regulator asks for views on access to data 24th June 2013 The European Medicines Agency has published a first draft of its policy on publication and access to clinical trial data and...
View ArticleBMA votes that non-publication of trials results is research misconduct
BMA votes that non-publication of trials results is research misconduct 26th June 2013 The British Medical Association has voted to make non-publication of trial results to now be considered research...
View ArticleData sharing – making it real
Data sharing – making it real 26th June 2013 The evidence base for current treatments has been built largely on aggregated results published in journal articles—articles that report trials initiated...
View ArticleThe challenges for journalists writing about clinical trials
The challenges for journalists writing about clinical trials 28th June 2013 This article was written by Ruth Francis, Head of Communications at BioMed Central. Three weeks before this year’s World...
View Article98% of clinical trials published? One research funder explains how
98% of clinical trials published? One research funder explains how 3rd July 2013 A recent study looking at publication rates from one major UK funder of clinical trials found a 98% success rate. This...
View ArticleAn interview with Sir Iain Chalmers
An interview with Sir Iain Chalmers 5th July 2013 Sir Iain Chalmers, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration and coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, talks about the AllTrials campaign...
View ArticleFull Disclosure Needed for Clinical Drug Data
Full Disclosure Needed for Clinical Drug Data 5th July 2013 An editorial in the New York Times today demands ‘Full disclosure needed for clinical drug data’. You can read the full article here.
View ArticleAre clinical trial data shared sufficiently today? No.
Are clinical trial data shared sufficiently today? No. 9th July 2013 Dr Ben Goldacre lays out what AllTrials is specifically calling for and responds to some of the arguments against clinical trial...
View ArticleSile Lane from Sense About Science talks about AllTrials to Newstalk Radio
Síle Lane from Sense About Science spoke to Newstalk Radio in Ireland about AllTrials 12th July 2013 You can listen to the full interview on the Newstalk radio website (46mins).
View ArticleGet involved
We need everyone to sign the petition: Sign the petition. Ask 10 of your friends, family and colleagues to sign the petition Email everyone you know with a link to the petition: www.alltrials.net put...
View ArticleWe need your help
We need your help 15th July 2013 We launched the AllTrials campaign 6 months ago, and with your help it’s taken us where we never expected. Major organisations around the world are now taking this...
View ArticleHealth Research Authority to go ahead with plans to promote transparent research
Health Research Authority to go ahead with plans to promote transparent research 16th July 2013 The Health Research Authority (HRA) today announced it will go ahead with its plans to promote...
View ArticlePharmaceutical industry bodies plan to mobilise patient groups
Pharma companies must distance themselves from their trade bodies’ leaked strategy 22nd July 2013 Two of the largest pharmaceutical industry trade bodies plan to mobilise patient groups in the debate...
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