Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Senator Criticizes Transparency Laws in Clinical Trials

According to this article on outsourcing-pharma.com, Senator Richard Moore has criticized laws in Massachusetts that enable pharma companies to hide payments made to physicians conducting clinical trials.

Moore believes that gifts and monetary compensation is public information and that it should not be hid from everyone. Moore later mentions:

“Patients and consumers generally have no idea what kind of relationships exist between their doctors and pharmaceutical companies or medical device manufacturers, relationships that result in billions of dollars per year in payments to health care practitioner.

Do you think that payments for physicians conducting clinical trials should be hid?

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