The FDA's lax oversight of research in developing countries can do harm to vulnerable participants
- Written by C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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The Big Idea
The Food and Drug Administration provides less stringent oversight of overseas research trials used in deciding whether to approve a drug than those...