Clinical Trial Fraud Detected by IRB

Applied Clinical Trials, Mar 11, 2009, Company News Release

Washington, D.C.:  On Friday, March 6, 2009, Coast Independent Review Board, an independent review board that has protected human subjects in thousands of clinical trials, discovered that a protocol submitted to it for review of a medical device called Adhesiabloc by a Device Med Systems of Clifton, Virginia, was in fact fraudulent in violation of federal and state law.  Upon receipt of proof of the fraud, Coast IRB and its CEO, Daniel Dueber, ordered the immediate termination of the clinical trial, referred evidence to federal and state authorities for investigation and prosecution, and instituted measures to prevent a recurrence.

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