The pharmaceutical companies also control the trials of the drugs they manufacture. In the book titled "Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients." published in April 2014, the author Ben Goldacre states; "When trials throw up results that companies don 't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any drug 's true effects.", (Goldacre, x). According to the book, three researchers from Harvard and Toronto found trials of five major drugs where they were funded by the government to only be 50% positive and trials funded by the companies were 85% positive. It appears that when the companies fund the trials they have more positive results because they have the option to withhold negative
The pharmaceutical companies also control the trials of the drugs they manufacture. In the book titled "Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients." published in April 2014, the author Ben Goldacre states; "When trials throw up results that companies don 't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any drug 's true effects.", (Goldacre, x). According to the book, three researchers from Harvard and Toronto found trials of five major drugs where they were funded by the government to only be 50% positive and trials funded by the companies were 85% positive. It appears that when the companies fund the trials they have more positive results because they have the option to withhold negative