More on suppressed findings

Another story today about the need to publish "failed" studies, this time about cholesterol:

From: What That Cholesterol Trial Didn’t Show

The Vytorin makers dragged their feet on releasing the results, issued the findings in a press release rather than a medical journal and made a lot of people mad.

“Failed trials are important,” said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. “The reason the medical community is upset about the delay in reporting this is that we learn as much from a study that fails as we do from a study that succeeds. People are not happy that we didn’t learn about this sooner.”

Notice that this quote also addresses the issue of "science by press release."