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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