Ethics and the marketing authorization of pharmaceuticals: what happens to ethical issues discovered post-trial and pre-marketing authorization?

Abstract Background In the EU, clinical assessors, rapporteurs and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use are obliged to assess the ethical aspects of a clinical development program and include major ethical flaws in the marketing authorization deliberation processes. To this date, we kn...

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Main Authors: Rosemarie D. L. C. Bernabe, Ghislaine J. M. W. van Thiel, Nancy S. Breekveldt, Christine C. Gispen, Johannes J. M. van Delden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-020-00543-w