Drug companies and clinical trials
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In July 2007 the St. Petersburg Times reported on the case of Accentia BioPharmaceuticals, a small drug company attempting top develop a treatment for sinusitis, SinuNase. To research the drug Accentia attracted PPD Inc. as a shareholder. A year later PPD also got the job of running the trials on the safety and effectiveness of SinuNase.
"If the PPD-run trials result in the drug being approved by the Food and Drug Administration, financially strapped Accentia will be on its way to tapping a billion-dollar market of folks with chronic sinusitis. And PPD will get 14 percent of the royalties. Is that a conflict of interest? The FDA doesn't think so," wrote St. Petersburg Times reporter Kris Hundley. [1]
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- ↑ Kris Hundley, "Companies run trials of drugs they invest in: Critics say a conflict of interest couldn't be more clear, but the FDA doesn't think so", St. Petersburg Times, July 1, 2007.
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