Medicine at the Tipping Point of Transparency
The Institute of Medicine report on data sharing makes the campaign for clinical trial transparency unstoppable.
AMSTAT News: ASA, Sense About Science USA Partner to Help Raise Media Statistical Literacy
AMSTAT News: The ASA has embarked on an initiative to help journalists and their editors become more statistically savvy. The association has partnered with the newly established Sense About Science USA to launch STATS.org, a website aimed at improving media coverage of statistical matters.
Read All About It—AllTrials Launches in US!
Financial Times article announces debut of AllTrialsUS.
BBC News: Trust of medical volunteers ‘betrayed’
From the BBC News: 53 clinical trial participants have written an open letter to the European Medicines Agency – the body which licenses drugs. They say that many participants in trials have been misled because thousands of clinical trials have not been published.