The legal loophole that means doctors don't have to declare if 'independent' research is actually funded by a drugs giant

The legal loophole that means doctors don't have to declare if 'independent' research is actually funded by a drugs giant When you take a powerful medicine, or have a medical device implanted in your body, you want to be sure its safety and effectiveness credentials are backed up by independent studies.

That is, free from medical companies' efforts to oversell the benefits or, worse, cover up the fact that their products may be useless or even potentially harmful.

Yet numerous studies show commercial money significantly influences researchers to sway clinical trial results in favour of the drug or device they are testing. The Daily Mail