Who funded the clinical trial, anyway?

Last week, we told you that an alarming amount of clinical trials are never published in peer review journals. The Deseret News in Utah now reports that when articles are published in news papers and online, they often times fail to report who funded the clinical study. According to Harvard's research which included 306 articles from 45 sources, 42% of study sponsors are never mentioned in the articles. This is information is critical to consumers, because the results of the studies are often influenced by who pays for the study.