The hidden side of clinical trials | Sile Lane | TEDxMadrid

Around half of the clinical trials done on medicines we use today are not published. A tragic truth that needs to be changed, to help doctors do their job properly and to not betray the trust...

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Translator: Maira Cabrini Reviewer: Vanesa GallegoWhat I'm about to tell you will shock you.It shocked me the first time I heard about it and frankly it still shocks me.When you go to a doctor and they prescribe you a medicineyou presume it's been testedand we know everything there is to know about whether it works, right?Well guess what.A lot of the time that's just not the case.And this is because around halfof the clinical trials that have been carried outon medicines that we use today have never published results.So we don't know what was found out about our medicinesin around half of the biggest trials that have happened on them.Clinical trials are those big testswhere some people are given a new medicineand some other people are g...