http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/business/15device.html?_r=2&ref=business
From the NY Times article:
"A Colorado company that approved a make-believe clinical trial run by
doctors who did not exist got a dose of reality on Tuesday."
More:
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/26/was-a-three-legged-dog-head-of-a-review-board/
"Hearing update: Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., criticized
Health and Human Services officials for failing to catch the fictitious
IRB and registering it despite numerous red flags. “Nobody picked up on
names like Phake Medical Devices, April Phuls, Timothy Witless and Alan
Ruse — in the town of Chetesville, Ariz.?” he asked department reps."
Unreal.
Coast said last month that it planned to overhaul its procedures, a
theme it emphasized in a statement released Tuesday. “Coast I.R.B. is
changing everything, said the company’s chief executive Dan Dueber. “We
are revamping every aspect of the company.”
Looks to me like the first part of the REVAMPING should be Dan Dueber... what a doob!
So, yet again the quest for our cure is usurped by GREED.[QUOTE=Pip!]So, yet again the quest for our cure is usurped by GREED.[/QUOTE]