Back in the not-so-distant 1990s, hardly a week went by without a news report or announcement of the discovery of genes for some disease. The most sensational one would probably be the1993 report, published in Science , that a gene at Xq28 is linked with male homosexuality, even though ...
The lack of public disclosure of results from clinical trials is used to be a hallmark of clinical trials worldwide. In the last five years, this situation is beginning to change following the announcement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in 2004 that its journa ...