Joe Biden: Agencies don't report clinical trials should lose funds

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Summary:

"At a national cancer summit Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden threatened to cut funds to medical research institutions that don’t report their clinical trial results in a timely manner.

“Under the law, it says you must report. If you don’t report, the law says you shouldn’t get funding,” Biden said, citing a STAT investigation that found widespread reporting lapses.

“I’m going to find out if it’s true” that the research centers aren’t reporting the results, Biden said — “and if it’s true, I’m going to cut funding. That’s a promise.”...

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, later told reporters that a proposed rule — soon to become a final rule — should help by giving the agency more “clout” to crack down on institutions, not just individual investigators, when clinical trial data isn’t reported...."

Link:

https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/29/biden-clinical-trials-cancer/

Updated:

04/10/2021, 05:53

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Date tagged:

04/10/2021, 09:53

Date published:

06/29/2016, 05:53