The record of the partnership is also an official public document kept by the General Registry Office in England and Wales (and its equivalents in Scotland and Northern Ireland).

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GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ) already announced a similar effort to put up a clinical trial registry, after New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit relating to unpublished data on Glaxo's antidepressant Paxil.

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