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Industry-sponsored research more likely to favor drug than placebo
By UCSF School of Pharmacy Editorial Staff / Mon Jun 11, 2007
Published results of drug trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry are more likely than trials not sponsored by the industry to favor drug over placebo, according to
- Lisa Bero, PhD and Kirby Lee, PharmD, UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty members;
- Peter Bacchetti, PhD, a UCSF School of Medicine faculty member; and
- Fieke Oostvogel of University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Their conclusions and underlying research appeared in PloS Medicine on June 5, 2007.
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UCSF study questions drug trial results: When drug companies sponsor research, their products more likely to perform well
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- [Factors Associated with Findings of Published Trials of Drug-Drug Comparisons: Why Some Statins Appear More Efficacious than Others][link defunct as of April 24, 2012]
- Industry-Funded Trials Biased Towards Sponsors' Drugs, Study Says
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