Blog

Another Indian firm under fire for shoddy clinical trials work

By Ben Hirschler and Zeba Siddiqui LONDON/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Another Indian clinical research organization, Quest Life Sciences of Chennai, is in trouble over defective trials work, including manipulation of heart readings, according to a warning issued by the World Health Organization. The action by the United Nations health agency follows an earlier scandal at GVK Biosciences, which resulted in approvals for hundreds of generic drugs being withdrawn in Europe. The