News: Critics Favor Disclosing More Clinical Data on New Drug Risks

May 11, 2011

guardian.co.uk

Drug regulators are being accused of being more concerned with protecting the profits of pharmaceutical companies than safeguarding the lives of patients.

The charge comes from doctors who spent three years battling with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to extract the results of clinical trials carried out by drug companies on anti-obesity pills. The EMA, which gave the drugs a marketing licence, refused the requests.

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