This is definitely a glass half empty/glass half full thing. A report in the Chronicle of Higher Education reveals that five years after a consortium of medical journal editors asked for the pre-registration of clinical trials at their outset less than 50 percent of trials are registering properly so that they can be reviewed and their results scrutinized and journals are lax in insisting upon the practice. Now comes the glass half full part: The editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association says that before the request for registration the number of trials that would have registered would have been “zero.” The editor sites the study results as real progress in getting compliance and full disclosure in trials results. There’s no word on what if any steps will be taken to ensure a higher or increased rate of compliance in the future… in other news, the swine flu vaccine keeps marching on and the number of trial in India grows by huge rates…

Effort to Preregister Clinical Trials Shows Limited Gains for … Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) – And of the 20 top-ranked journals, only about four publish the results of clinical trials, and at least three of those four have adopted the policy … See all stories on this topic

Clinical trials for flu vaccine start – Korea Herald – Clinical trials for the H1N1 flu vaccine yesterday started on 470 adult volunteers, said local drug maker Green Cross. Aimed at confirming the effectiveness … See all stories on this topic

Clinical Trial Outsourcing in India to Post Double Digit Growth by … PRLog.Org (press release) – This has been led by outsourcing of clinical trials which share a major part of drug development costs. Our research study “Booming Clinical Trials Market … See all stories on this topic