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The Food and Drug Administration provides less stringent oversight of overseas research trials used in deciding whether to approve a drug than those conducted domestically. That was the finding of my recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. My study highlighted loopholes in the agency’s oversight processes that exploited vulnerable people and led More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by C. Michael White.

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