FDA stinks at policing conflicts
Just when you thought nobody could be worse than the National Institutes of Health at managing financial conflicts of interest among trial investigators... The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services released a linkurl:report;http://www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-05-07-00730.pdf today that indicates a pretty severe lack of oversight over at the Food and Drug Administration. The report found that only one percent of the almost 27,000 clinical investigators contracted by
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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer.
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**__Related stories:__***linkurl:Should conflicts mean no NIH grant?;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55058/
[29th September 2008]*linkurl:Report faults NIH on conflicts;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54183/
[18th January 2008]*linkurl:CSPI: FDA can manage conflicts better;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53953/
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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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