"I use to work in pharma research (at the data acquisition and analysis side, blinded from treatment) and the fact that pharmas are able to start clinical trials and then shut them down without reporting result is a problem."

This Cherry Picking should become a felony? Spit out the data you have on hand, even if incomplete? Give the results of the studies to the FDA, or make whatever data you have available to the scientific community at large?

Why don't they make this information available; because usually the study didn't prove their hypothesis, and they need to start another study hoping the data just might magically change? And with the right 3rd party researchers, in the right foreign countries--poof the data magically seems to turn around? And the company has a new money maker?