WASHINGTON — A former top official at the Food and Drug Administration and a longtime science journalist are suing the agency and the National Institutes of Health, saying they let clinical trial sponsors off the hook for reporting nearly a decade’s worth of important scientific data.
Under a law passed in 2007, researchers involved in many clinical trials must report their results to the federal government. But the NIH and FDA only finalized a rule to ensure compliance in 2016.
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This is what we get, when we allow a criminal to appoint industry insiders and people of low moral character to our federal agencies. These agencies are still understaffed, and key positions have been cut or left unfilled. These agencies have been undermined by design, in order to allow groups like PhRMA to continue their illegal activities.
All I am say that thanks for all you have done!
Comments received by the FDA on its plans show that patients, doctors and scientists overwlehmingly support the imposition of fines, across the board. Only PhRMA and AdvaMed are opposed:
https://www.transparimed.org/single-post/2018/12/07/Pharma-and-medical-device-lobbies-stonewall-on-transparency-as-doctors-and-patients-call-for-fines-on-companies-hiding-clinical-trial-results