singular_me
3rd October 2016, 09:00 AM
Most big brands have sweatshops in china/latin america and are secretly behind the knock offs and generic drugs of their own brands. There is just too much money. Couldnt find any big pharma names investigated by the chinese gov though, but I am sure the usual suspects would be listed. They would hate big pharma stocks to crash
Monetizing health/life is a plague, was bound to happen
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"I don't think that the 80 percent figure is overstated," Luo said. "If you compare Western pharmaceuticals manufactured overseas with those manufactured in China, there is a huge difference in the ingredients; the quality of the China-made drugs is appalling."
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/clinical-fakes-09272016141438.html
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Counterfeit drugs becoming big business worldwide
The discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United States is raising new fears that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S.
The criminal practice has largely been relegated to poor countries with lax regulations. But with more medicines and drug ingredients for sale in the U.S. being manufactured overseas, American authorities are afraid more counterfeits will find their way into this country, putting patients' lives at risk.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/16/counterfeit-drugs-becoming-big-business-worldwide.html
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'60 Minutes' examines counterfeit drug problem
NEW YORK — "Fake drugs are a big threat and an exploding threat," Kumar Kibble, deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the news program "60 Minutes" in a segment that appeared Sunday night.
Kibble, who tracks counterfeit drugs from their source in clandestine labs around the world to the United States, where they're typically sold online through rogue pharmacy sites, told "60 Minutes" that increasingly, traditional criminal groups, including many once involved in illegal drug trafficking, are shifting operations to take advantage of the low-risk/high-reward economics of the counterfeit drug trade — a $75 billion-a-year industry, according to estimates.
http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/60-minutes-examines-counterfeit-drug-problem
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80% of data in Chinese clinical trials have been fabricated
3 October 2016 GMT
A Chinese government investigation has revealed that more than 80 percent of the data used in clinical trials of new pharmaceutical drugs have been "fabricated".
The report uncovered fraudulent behaviour at almost every level, and showed that some pharmaceutical companies had hidden or deleted records of potentially adverse side effects, and tampered with data that didn't meet their desired outcomes.
In light of the findings, 80 percent of current drug applications, which were awaiting approval for mass production, have now been cancelled.
The investigation, led by the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), looked at data from 1,622 clinical trials for new pharmaceutical drugs currently awaiting approval. The applications in question were all for Western medicine, not traditional Chinese medicine.
The SFDA found that the more than 80 percent of the data failed to meet analysis requirements, were incomplete, or totally non-existent.
Not only did the report find that many of the 'new' drugs awaiting approval were actually a combination of existing drugs, they also showed that many clinical trial outcomes were written before the trials had actually taken place, and the data had been simply manipulated to match what companies wanted to find.
Worst of all, it wasn't just a few scientists or pharma companies doing the dirty work. The report found that pretty much everyone involved was guilty of some kind of malpractice of fraud..........
"It's not just the medicines," he said. "In China, everything is fake, and if there's a profit in pharmaceuticals, then someone's going to fake them too."
As damning as this problem is for China's scientists, they aren't the only ones that are under more and more pressure to publish positive and "groundbreaking" results in order to keep their jobs.
A study published earlier this month revealed that the enormous pressure on academics is acting like a form of natural selection, and evolving science into something "shoddy and unreliable".
MORE
http://www.sciencealert.com/80-of-the-data-in-chinese-clinical-trial-is-fabricated
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Study warns that science as we know it is evolving into something shoddy and unreliable
Welcome to "the natural selection of bad science".
http://www.sciencealert.com/study-warns-that-science-as-we-know-it-is-evolving-into-something-shoddy-and-unreliable
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Academics admit to embellishing the impact of their research to get grants
"If you don’t play the game, you don’t do well."
http://www.sciencealert.com/academics-admit-having-to-embellish-possible-impact-of-research-to-get-grants
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Monetizing health/life is a plague, was bound to happen
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"I don't think that the 80 percent figure is overstated," Luo said. "If you compare Western pharmaceuticals manufactured overseas with those manufactured in China, there is a huge difference in the ingredients; the quality of the China-made drugs is appalling."
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/clinical-fakes-09272016141438.html
------------------------
Counterfeit drugs becoming big business worldwide
The discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United States is raising new fears that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S.
The criminal practice has largely been relegated to poor countries with lax regulations. But with more medicines and drug ingredients for sale in the U.S. being manufactured overseas, American authorities are afraid more counterfeits will find their way into this country, putting patients' lives at risk.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/16/counterfeit-drugs-becoming-big-business-worldwide.html
-----------------------
'60 Minutes' examines counterfeit drug problem
NEW YORK — "Fake drugs are a big threat and an exploding threat," Kumar Kibble, deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the news program "60 Minutes" in a segment that appeared Sunday night.
Kibble, who tracks counterfeit drugs from their source in clandestine labs around the world to the United States, where they're typically sold online through rogue pharmacy sites, told "60 Minutes" that increasingly, traditional criminal groups, including many once involved in illegal drug trafficking, are shifting operations to take advantage of the low-risk/high-reward economics of the counterfeit drug trade — a $75 billion-a-year industry, according to estimates.
http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/60-minutes-examines-counterfeit-drug-problem
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80% of data in Chinese clinical trials have been fabricated
3 October 2016 GMT
A Chinese government investigation has revealed that more than 80 percent of the data used in clinical trials of new pharmaceutical drugs have been "fabricated".
The report uncovered fraudulent behaviour at almost every level, and showed that some pharmaceutical companies had hidden or deleted records of potentially adverse side effects, and tampered with data that didn't meet their desired outcomes.
In light of the findings, 80 percent of current drug applications, which were awaiting approval for mass production, have now been cancelled.
The investigation, led by the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), looked at data from 1,622 clinical trials for new pharmaceutical drugs currently awaiting approval. The applications in question were all for Western medicine, not traditional Chinese medicine.
The SFDA found that the more than 80 percent of the data failed to meet analysis requirements, were incomplete, or totally non-existent.
Not only did the report find that many of the 'new' drugs awaiting approval were actually a combination of existing drugs, they also showed that many clinical trial outcomes were written before the trials had actually taken place, and the data had been simply manipulated to match what companies wanted to find.
Worst of all, it wasn't just a few scientists or pharma companies doing the dirty work. The report found that pretty much everyone involved was guilty of some kind of malpractice of fraud..........
"It's not just the medicines," he said. "In China, everything is fake, and if there's a profit in pharmaceuticals, then someone's going to fake them too."
As damning as this problem is for China's scientists, they aren't the only ones that are under more and more pressure to publish positive and "groundbreaking" results in order to keep their jobs.
A study published earlier this month revealed that the enormous pressure on academics is acting like a form of natural selection, and evolving science into something "shoddy and unreliable".
MORE
http://www.sciencealert.com/80-of-the-data-in-chinese-clinical-trial-is-fabricated
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Study warns that science as we know it is evolving into something shoddy and unreliable
Welcome to "the natural selection of bad science".
http://www.sciencealert.com/study-warns-that-science-as-we-know-it-is-evolving-into-something-shoddy-and-unreliable
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Academics admit to embellishing the impact of their research to get grants
"If you don’t play the game, you don’t do well."
http://www.sciencealert.com/academics-admit-having-to-embellish-possible-impact-of-research-to-get-grants
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