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Clinical Trials Transparency: write to your MEPs

All Trials Registered, All Results Reported

Write to your MEPs - All Trials Registered, All Results Reported, the #AllTrials Campaign
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A committee of MEPs will soon vote on proposals that could increase transparency of clinical trials. However, there are 350 lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry at the European Parliament and MEPs are now hearing their arguments against transparency every day. We have until 29th May to make sure they hear our arguments.

The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee of the European Parliament, which is made up of 67 MEPs from 22 countries, is currently scrutinising the Clinical Trials Regulation. On Wednesday 29th May they will vote on changes to the regulation. There are proposals on the table that could greatly increase clinical trial transparency and would mean that all clinical trials for medicines licensed in Europe would have to be registered and the results reported.

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Today is International Clinical Trials Day in The UK

On International Clinical Trials Day, the NIHR promotes its “OK to ask” campaign

International Clinical Trials Day: 20 May
International Clinical Trials Day

International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated around the world on or near the 20 May each year, to commemorate the day that James Lind started his famous trial on the deadly disease scurvy. It provides a focal point to raise awareness of the importance of research to health care, and highlights how partnerships between patients and healthcare practitioners are vital to high-quality, relevant research.

On International Clinical Trials Day, the NIHR promotes its “OK to ask” campaign to encourage patients and the public to ask medical professionals about clinical research.

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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Plans to share detailed Clinical Trial data online for Researchers

GSK gives update on plans to share detailed clinical trial data as part of its commitment to transparency

GlaxoSmithKline has a new Online System for Clinical Study Data free access

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)  new online system will enable researchers to request access to anonymised patient level data that sit behind the results of clinical trials.
It is hoped that sharing these data with researchers will help to further scientific research, increase understanding of new and current medicines and ultimately improve patient care.
Will other pharmaceutical companies follow?

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UK NHS’ it’s OK to Ask about Clinical Research

The NIHR’s patient empowerment campaign, 2013

The NHS OK to ask campaign
Promote the OK to ask campaign across the country.

During 2013/14 The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is promoting the fact that it’s OK to ask about clinical research. The campaign is aimed at patients, medical professionals and the public. Everyone can get involved and help spread the word that it’s OK to ask about clinical research. f you have a medical condition and are undergoing treatment, the NHS would like you to ask your family doctor, nurse or consultant about clinical research, and whether it might be right for you.

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South African Media asking for ALL Medical Research Results to be known

Why researchers MUST publish ALL results of clinical trials

Call for all clinical trial results to be made known
Sir Iain Chalmers says let’s make all research results public

” South Africans participating in clinical trials should demand that results are published ” says Cochrane Collaboration founder Sir Iain Chalmers.
” Much of the world’s clinical research was wasteful and failed to tackle issues that were most important to patients ” Sir Iain told delegates at a conference hosted by the Medical Research Council (MRC).
” Worse still, only 50% of the research was published, which meant doctors and patients were left in the dark about possible side effects, concealing evidence of potential possible harm from doctors and patients alike ” he said.

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Big Pharma Image: how can the Pharmaceutical Industry improve its Perception?

10 ways pharma can improve its image
How can the industry improve its perception?

” … today consumers are angry at big business and demand more in terms of transparency and social responsibility …  we have an industry that is leaking badly in consumer trust and every time they plug one leak another one pops open… ”

Read 10 ways pharma can improve its image
by Richard Meyer, Aril 30, 2013, World of DTC Marketing

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Why don’t we test drugs on pregnant women and children? To protect them from untested Drugs…

It’s the Catch-22 of clinical trials…

"Why don't we test drugs on women and children? To protect them from untested Drugs"
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” It’s the Catch-22 of clinical trials: to protect pregnant women and children from the risks of untested drugs….we don’t test drugs adequately for them. In the last few decades, we’ve been more concerned about the harms of research than of inadequately tested treatments for everyone, in fact. But for “vulnerable populations,” like pregnant women and children, the default was to exclude them. And just in case any women might be, or might become, pregnant, it was often easier just to exclude us all from trials. “

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All Trials Registered, All Results Reported

The AllTrials campaign next steps announced, 2013

All Trials Registered, All Results Reported, the #AllTrials Campaign next steps announced
Join and sign the #AllTrials petition for all trials registered and all results reported

The AllTrials transparency campaign says it is at a crossroads and is looking to take the next step into becoming a larger force against the restriction of clinical trial data by pharma.  It continues:  “There are many who hope that AllTrials will fizzle out and go away, as previous efforts have done – what happens next is up to all of us.
We need your help to grow internationally, and to push for a decisive and permanent change.”

All Trials Registered, All Results Reported, why the Campaign Matters

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All Trials Registered, All Results Reported, why the #AllTrials Campaign Matters
Join and sign the #AllTrials petition for all trials registered and all results reported

Around half of all clinical trials have not been published; some trials have not even been registered. If action is not taken urgently, information on what was done and what was found in trials could be lost forever, leading to bad treatment decisions, missed opportunities for good medicine, and trials being repeated unnecessarily.

Why Researchers MUST publish ALL Results of Clinical Trials

Make all medical research results public

Make all research results publicA new campaign All trials registered, all results reported  – supported by the Medical Research Council  (publicly funded organisation in the UK dedicated to improving human health) – calls for the results of all clinical trials to be made public.
Sir Iain Chalmers, Coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, has strong words on researchers who hide trial results and ends his post by saying: “ If action is not taken urgently by research funders and regulators, information on what was done and what was found in trials could be lost forever, leading to bad treatment decisions, unnecessary repetition of trials, and missed opportunities for good medical practice. ”

Read Make all research results public, insight, 4 April 2013.
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