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Most Research Institutions Break The Law On Reporting Clinical Trial Results, Report Finds

 Reporting the results of trials on humans to the federal government's public-access website  ClinicalTrials.gov  has been mandatory since 2008. But universities, drug companies and nonprofit research institutions routinely skirt the law, and neither the NIH or FDA has levied any fines, according to an investigation by STAT News. 

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