China Cracks Down on Fraudulent Drug-Trial Data
David Cyranoski, Nature
Those who submit faked clinical trial data might now go to jail and in extreme circumstances, be executed under a new interpretation of China's criminal code, announced last month.The policy shift is one of a handful of measures that China is implementing both to speed up its notoriously slow drug-approval process and to keep dangerous and ineffective drugs off the market. This move is the strongest signal yet, to all the drug developers, clinical-trial managers and principal investigators and physicians, that China is now very serious about clinical data, says Dan Zhang,...
Those who submit faked clinical trial data might now go to jail and in extreme circumstances, be executed under a new interpretation of China's criminal code, announced last month.The policy shift is one of a handful of measures that China is implementing both to speed up its notoriously slow drug-approval process and to keep dangerous and ineffective drugs off the market. This move is the strongest signal yet, to all the drug developers, clinical-trial managers and principal investigators and physicians, that China is now very serious about clinical data, says Dan Zhang,...