AllTrials project launches in the UK

AllTrials has launched a new public campaign in an effort to ensure wholesale transparency of clinical trial data.

As part of Sense About Science's project, a petition was introduced, which now boasts close to 3,000 signatures, indicating the strong desire for govenrments, regulators and research bodies to register all trials along with their methods and results, reports Pharma Times.

Included in the campaign's supporters are Bad Science author Dr Ben Goldacre.  Sense About Science works with a number of bodies, research publishers and policymakers to alter discussions about science and evidence.

The campaigners have singled out the European Medicines Agency as one group that needs to take action, explaining that the law does not contain measures to guarantee comprehensive registration and reporting of trials.

Speaking to the Pharma Times, Sense About Science director Tracey Brown said: "Everybody agrees that all clinical trials should be registered, and that we should at the very least have access to the basic results, and ideally the full Clinical Study Reports. But there have been years of foot-dragging and non-compliance with requirements.

"It’s a vital matter of public interest for the medicine we have now and the medicines we might have in the future."

Richard Stephens, chair of the National Institute for Health Research Cancer Consumer Liaison Group, also stressed that patients who contribute to trials will want to be certain their findings are optimally distributed.

"The Department of Health report, Innovation Health and Wealth, sets out a goal for the NHS that every willing patient should be able to take part in research," the news provider reports him as saying.

GlaxoSmithKline is just one of the companies that has backed a move towards data transparency, with the business explaining that such an approach will boost medical research by enabling scientists to carry out detailed analysis of trials.

The organisation noted that its "ultimate goal" is to develop a system that allows experts to access information from trials carried out by various companies.

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