Pharmaceutical Industry Sponsoring Can Bias Results of Studies According to Deutsches Ärzteblatt International Study

EurekAlert -- Drug studies financed by pharmaceutical companies frequently show positive results in favour of the sponsor. In the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107(16): 279-85), a research group headed by the Chairman of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association, Prof. Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, describes the influence of sponsoring on the results, protocol and quality of drugs studies.