{"id":776,"date":"2012-04-12T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:06:15","slug":"drug-data-shouldnt-be-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Drug Data Shouldn\u2019t Be Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PETER DOSHI and TOM JEFFERSON\u00a0 Published: April 10, 2012\u00a0 The New York Times &#8211; IN the fall of 2009, at the height of fears over swine flu, our research group discovered that a majority of clinical trial data for the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu \u2014 data that proved, according to its manufacturer, that the drug reduced the risk of hospitalization, serious complications and transmission \u2014 were missing, unpublished and inaccessible to the research community. From what we could tell from the limited clinical data that had been published in medical journals, the country\u2019s most widely used and heavily stockpiled influenza drug appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/339\/bmj.b5164.full\">no more effective than aspirin<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/11\/opinion\/drug-data-shouldnt-be-secret.html?_r=1\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By PETER DOSHI and TOM JEFFERSON\u00a0 Published: April 10, 2012\u00a0 The New York Times &#8211; IN the fall of 2009, at the height of fears over swine flu, our research <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=776\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[103,138,42,235,234,57],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-fda","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-roche","tag-tamiflu","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}