STAT+: ‘A blind eye’: NIH fails to ensure clinical trial results are reported, and still funds researchers who don’t file results

The U.S. National Institutes of Health failed to ensure that results of roughly half of clinical trials funded by the agency — both those conducted by its own scientists and outside researchers — were reported to a federal database during a recent two-year period, a new government review has found.
Of the 72 trials funded by the NIH, results for just 35 studies were reported in 2019 and 2020 to ClinicalTrials.gov, a federal repository for information on studies. But the agency did not ensure that researchers running 37 trials complied with reporting requirements. NIH researchers ran 57% of the studies that were reported, and 43% of those not reported. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…