Half of trials supporting FDA applications go unpublished

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 03:56 in Health & Medicine

Over half of all supporting trials for FDA-approved drugs remained unpublished 5 years after approval, says new research published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The most important trials determining efficacy, and those with statistically significant results and larger sample sizes, are more likely to be published.

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