Islander
08-06-11, 04:36 PM
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK | Tue Aug 2, 2011
(Reuters Health) - Major U.S.-sponsored clinical trials on heart disease often turn to other countries to recruit patients and a new report questions whether that undermines the evidence they generate and the health of the American clinical trial system.
Researchers found that of 24 U.S. taxpayer-funded clinical trials on heart disease in the past decade, 19 included patients from other countries. Across 11 of those studies, international patients accounted for nearly half of participants. That high international involvement raises several concerns, according to Dr. Venu Menon and his colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/us-heart-offshoring-idUSTRE7715EI20110802?feedType=nl&feedName=ushealth1100
NEW YORK | Tue Aug 2, 2011
(Reuters Health) - Major U.S.-sponsored clinical trials on heart disease often turn to other countries to recruit patients and a new report questions whether that undermines the evidence they generate and the health of the American clinical trial system.
Researchers found that of 24 U.S. taxpayer-funded clinical trials on heart disease in the past decade, 19 included patients from other countries. Across 11 of those studies, international patients accounted for nearly half of participants. That high international involvement raises several concerns, according to Dr. Venu Menon and his colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/us-heart-offshoring-idUSTRE7715EI20110802?feedType=nl&feedName=ushealth1100