Rs 3 lakh – that's the price a pharmaceutical company has paid to the family of a person who died in their Clinical Trial. Others weren't even this lucky. According to the Drug Controller General of India's (DCGI) records, 25 people died in Clinical Trials carried out by nine pharmaceutical companies in 2010. Families of five of these victims received "compensation for trial related death" — the amount ranging from Rs...

After a government report confirmed major ethical violations in trials of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines on Indian schoolgirls, senior doctors are calling for transparency in Clinical Trials conducted under private-public partnerships. The report is yet to be placed in the public domain, but its contents were revealed early May by senior doctors who assisted in its preparation, sparking outrage among public health advocates and women’s rights groups. HPV is an umbrella...

-The Hindu   Consent forms signed by higher authorities on behalf of adolescent girls ‘Interests of NGO, business prioritised over that of people' Due attention was not paid to the adverse side effects and vaccine-related problems Expressing concern over the “shocking” irregularities and violation of medical ethics in the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine trial, revealed by the final HPV enquiry report and its findings, the All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has demanded fixing...

‘Project proposal carried out as research on human participants' Nature and objectives of these projects makes it evident that they are in fact Clinical Trials ‘They have administered an intervention which is not part of a prescribed prevention' The final report of the committee appointed by the Centre to enquire into alleged irregularities in the conduct of studies using Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine has found enough evidence to suggest that there were...

Karnataka government will appoint a two-member expert committee to frame guidelines to regulate clinical drug trials and research projects in all government and private medical colleges and hospitals in the State. The trials and projects will remain suspended till the recommendations are made by the committee. "Until such time, all ongoing clinical drug trials and research projects have been temporarily suspended," Medical Education Minister S A Ramadass told reporters here today. He cited...