Biden threatens to defund universities that don’t publish cancer trial results

During a National Cancer Summit earlier today, Vice President Joe Biden pledged to take action against research institutions that don't report their clinical trial results.

Biden issued the remarks during his opening address at the Howard University’s summit, citing a 2015 Stat News report that showed that several prominent research centers, including Stanford University and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, had failed to report their results. That deprives "patients and doctors of complete data to gauge the safety and benefits of treatments," Biden said.

"Under the law, it says you must report."

He noted that some of the lapses cited in the Stat News report needed to be addressed, and that researchers using funds from the...