Adverse Event Reporting News - Clinical trials investigator accuses drug companies of delaying release of study results
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 The lead outside investigator on a crucial trial of two widely used heart drugs said in an e-mail message last July that Merck and Schering-Plough, the companies that make the drugs, were deliberately delaying the release of the trial results “to hide something,” The New York Times reported April 1.
The companies did not release the preliminary results of the trial, called Enhance, until January, almost two years after the trial was finished. When they were finally released, t…
