Institute for Scientific Freedom Reports Findings in Schizophrenia (Requesting conflicts of interest declarations from the European Medicines Agency: 3-year follow-up status).

A report from the Institute for Scientific Freedom in Copenhagen, Denmark discusses their efforts to retrieve conflicts of interest declarations from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) over a period of three years. The researchers submitted Freedom of Information requests to access EMA's lists of committee members involved in drafting guidelines for psychiatric indications. After almost three years, the EMA provided member lists and conflicts of interest declarations from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human use (CHMP) for three requested guidelines. The report recommends that the EMA improve transparency by publishing author names and conflicts of interest declarations directly in the guidelines. [Extracted from the article]