Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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... posted a year or so ago that all trials are not reported to clinicaltrials.gov and I believe s/he estimated only ~50% are, in effect, becoming pre-reporting trials to ascertain the likelihood of success.

You have a good memory.

“Roughly half of clinical trials go unreported. Industry-sponsored trials are four times more likely to produce positive results than non-industry trials. And even when trials are reported, the investigators usually fail to share their study results: nearly 90 percent of trials on ClinicalTrials.gov lack results.”

However the “new rule” appears to have more teeth, at least for NIH studies.

“A recently passed final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services now requires that all NIH-sponsored clinical trials be reported on ClinicalTrials.gov. A complementary policy from the National Institutes of Health covers registering and submitting summary results information to ClinicalTrials.gov for all NIH-funded trials, including those not covered by the final rule.


Unreported trials are subject to daily fines of $11,833. Researchers have 90 days after the rule is enacted on January 18, 2017 to comply with it. Excellent summaries of the rule have been published by the NIH and in the New England Journal of Medicine.”

(Bolding mine)

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/17/clinical-trial-reporting-new-rule/