Indian Government to make biometric ID mandatory for clinical trials

Hit with allegations in the western media about unethical practices in conducting clinical trials, The Indian government and regulatory authorities are making a bolder move planning mandatory biometric identification for clinical trial volunteers in India. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare plans to ask all clinical research organisations to enforce biometric identification for the [...]

Drug companies conducting their own clinical trials leads to Conflict of Interest a Debate

Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre argues that the financial interests of drug companies lead to distorted evidence, but Vincent Lawton believes that adequate safeguards exist to keep bias in check. Full text of the article is published on BMJ Dr Goldacre and Prof Lawton faced each other on the same issue recently as opposing speakers at PharmaTimes’s Great Oxford [...]