Clin­i­cal tri­al spon­sors have to dis­close decade’s worth of un­re­leased da­ta, fed­er­al judge rules

A decade’s worth of un­re­leased tri­al da­ta may soon see the light of day.

A New York fed­er­al judge ruled this week that the FDA and the NIH have for years mis­in­ter­pret­ed a law that would re­quire com­pa­nies, uni­ver­si­ties and oth­er clin­i­cal tri­al spon­sors to re­lease tri­al da­ta from stud­ies com­plet­ed be­tween 2007 and 2017. The rul­ing cov­ers drugs and med­ical de­vices that were ex­per­i­men­tal when the study was com­plet­ed but have since been ap­proved, po­ten­tial­ly putting hun­dreds of spon­sors out of com­pli­ance if they don’t put their re­sults on clin­i­cal­tri­als.gov.

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