NIH extends reporting mandate to more clinical trials, but obscures their policing
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/nih-extends-reporting-mandate-more-clinical-trials-obscures-their-policing
The National Institutes of Health, whose clinical center is pictured above, expanded the requirement to register and post results from clinical trials but hasn’t made key details needed for evaluating its enforcement public.
A Science investigation reported this week that many companies and medical research institutions fail to meet a long-standing legal mandate to disclose clinical trial results in a federal database. For certain trials, however, compliance is impossible to verify.