Drug Industry Lobbyists Kept Clinical Trial Results Secret
The Sunlight Foundation reports on how lobbyists for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries impacted one woman's health problems. Suffering from debilitating migraines, Bray Patrick-Lake volunteered for a Food and Drug Administration-regulated clinical trial. But three months after joining the study, it was abruptly halted. Device manufacturer St. Jude Medical Inc. said the study didn't have enough volunteers. Patrick-Lake was unable to find out the results of the trial