The pharmaceutical industry needs high-quality trials, but can they get them in low-cost areas?
According to documents posted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer’s blood thinner, Eliquis, was stalled for nine months because of misconduct, errors and an alleged cover-up attempt at a Chinese trial site. FDA documents show that patients got the wrong medicine, records were secretly changed and “serious adverse events” went unreported. Read more.
