Rep. Frank Pal­lone wants FDA and NIH to act on phar­ma's non­com­pli­ance with tri­al records law

Frank Pal­lone, rank­ing mem­ber of the House En­er­gy & Com­merce Com­mit­tee, crit­i­cized the FDA and NIH to­day for not do­ing enough to pre­vent phar­ma com­pa­nies from fail­ing to re­port cer­tain clin­i­cal tri­al re­sults to the gov­ern­ment data­base, Clin­i­cal­Tri­als.gov.

Point­ing to a re­cent study, Pal­lone said that while com­pli­ance with Clin­i­cal­Tri­als.gov re­port­ing re­quire­ments “has slow­ly but steadi­ly im­proved since 2007, sig­nif­i­cant gaps re­main.”

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