CLINICAL TRIAL SPONSORS KEEP RESULTS SECRET AND DON’T PAY BILLIONS IN FINES

CLINICAL TRIAL SPONSORS KEEP RESULTS SECRET AND DON’T PAY BILLIONS IN FINES

The Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health allow clinical trial sponsors to keep their results secret and escape from paying more than $10 billion dollars in fines since the law was enacted in 2007 requiring disclosure of results. Those who conduct clinical trials are required to record results within one year of trial completion on the NIH’s website ClinicalTrials.gov. Physicians and patients rely on trial results to see whether new treatments are safe and effective. Collect the $10 billion now and stop funding non-compliant trial sponsors.

CLINICAL TRIAL SPONSORS KEEP RESULTS SECRET AND DON’T PAY BILLIONS IN FINES

DRUGS THAT COST THE MOST, EFFICACY, GLOBAL PRICES

The tables below show: the Ten Most Costly Drugs in 2017 for Medicare Part D (Outpatient Prescriptions) and the Ten Most Costly Drugs in 2017 for Medicare Part B (Physician Administered Drugs); drug efficacy as determined by Cochrane Reviews, and comparative global prices obtained from internet sites. The patient and taxpayer pay for these drugs. If they are beneficial, we should use similar or identical drugs from other countries that cost significantly less.