Registering Research

Slowly but surely clinical research is inching toward doing the right thing in clinical research, and that may be what will happen in the registration of all human research by the WHO. There is no excuse for not making every trial conducted with human subjects publicly, easily and usefully available in a timely manner. If subject are recruited with the promise that they will contribute to knowledge then the results of every trial must be made public either in print or on the web in a standardized format.