Companies find their products are best
Executive Summary
Industry-sponsored head-to-head statin trials are 20 times more likely to favor the sponsor's drug than a comparator, an article in the June issue of the Public Library of Science states. In an evaluation of 192 randomized controlled trials, Lisa Bero, University of California-San Francisco, et al., also finds that company-sponsored trials are 35 times more likely to reach a conclusion in favor of the sponsor's product. Antipsychotic trials have been found to be similarly biased (1"The Pink Sheet" Feb. 6, 2006, p. 9)...
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