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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...demics-doctors
Thousands of lives put at risk by clinical trials system that is 'not fit for purpose'
Call for radical overhaul of system to allow emergency trials to launch within 24 hours of an epidemic emerging
Ian Sample, science correspondent
The Guardian, Monday 31 March 2014 18.34 BST
A major outbreak of infectious disease could sweep through the country and leave thousands dead or ill because hospitals cannot test life-saving treatments quickly enough, senior doctors have told the Guardian.
Profound delays in the approvals process for clinical trials mean doctors face months of form-filling and administrative checks that make it impossible to run crucial tests in good time, said Jeremy Farrar, in his first major interview as director of the Wellcome Trust.
Farrar, a world expert on infectious diseases at Oxford University, has taken over from Sir Mark Walport, who left the medical charity to become the government's chief science adviser...
Thousands of lives put at risk by clinical trials system that is 'not fit for purpose'
Call for radical overhaul of system to allow emergency trials to launch within 24 hours of an epidemic emerging
Ian Sample, science correspondent
The Guardian, Monday 31 March 2014 18.34 BST
A major outbreak of infectious disease could sweep through the country and leave thousands dead or ill because hospitals cannot test life-saving treatments quickly enough, senior doctors have told the Guardian.
Profound delays in the approvals process for clinical trials mean doctors face months of form-filling and administrative checks that make it impossible to run crucial tests in good time, said Jeremy Farrar, in his first major interview as director of the Wellcome Trust.
Farrar, a world expert on infectious diseases at Oxford University, has taken over from Sir Mark Walport, who left the medical charity to become the government's chief science adviser...