Novartis Acknowledges Employees Participated In ‘Independent’ Trials

Novartis has acknowledged that employees of the company participated in five “independent” investigator-initiated post-registration trials without disclosing their relationship to the company. The company said that a broader “comprehensive investigation with independent third party experts is ongoing” but that it has “provided an update” to Japanese medical societies and to the principal investigators of the five trials. … The new statement from Novartis admits that “one of our former employees [presumably Shirahashi] had varying levels of involvement in five investigator initiated valsartan trials in Japan.” The statement also disclosed that “a second former employee (who reported to the More…
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