[e-drug] New Publication: Clinical Trials in Latin America: Where Ethics and Business Clash

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E-DRUG: New Publication: Clinical Trials in Latin America: Where Ethics and Business Clash
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Clinical Trials in Latin America: Where Ethics and Business Clash.
(Homedes and Ugalde, Editors) Springer, 2014

The outsourcing of clinical trials to Latin America by the
transnational innovative pharmaceutical industry began about twenty
years ago. Using archival information and field work in Argentina,
Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru, the authors discuss the
regulatory contexts and the ethical dimensions of human
experimentation in the region. More than 80% of all clinical trials
in the region take place in these countries, and the European
Medicines Agency has defined them as priority countries in Latin
America. The authors raise questions about the quality of data
obtained from the trials and the violation of human rights during
their implementation. Their findings are presented in this volume,
the first in-depth analysis of clinical trials in the region.

NUria Homedes
University of Texas
Nuria Homedes <nhomedes@utep.edu>

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Congratulations! An important contribution to why drugs are approved as more beneficial and safer than they turn out to be in practice. The number of biased, scientifically inferior trials accepted by regulators as evidence is appalling.

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