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What Happens When Profit Margins Drive Clinical Research?

Two-thirds of clinical trials are now privately run. A primer on the contract research organizations (CROs) that run them.

September/October 2010 Issue

Poor Reviews

Profit pressures gut guinea pigs' only safeguard: institutional review boards.

September/October 2010 Issue

The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials

When you risk life and limb to help test a drug, are you helping science—or Big Pharma?

September/October 2010 Issue
 

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