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Federal judge rules clinical trial sponsors must publish a decade’s worth of missing data

The ruling means universities, drug makers, and medical device manufacturers must publish data collected in clinical trials conducted between 2007 and 2017.

WASHINGTON — For years, government research agencies have misinterpreted a law that requires them to collect and post clinical trial data, a federal judge ruled this week, leaving behind a 10-year gap in data that now must be made publicly available.

Now, potentially hundreds of universities, drug companies, and medical

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