Morning Briefing

American Medical News examines the ethical considerations of outsourcing pharmaceutical clinical trials to developing countries. The article highlights how it is less expensive for a drug company to conduct a trial in India, where it runs about $2,000 to track a patient through a trial, compared to the cost in the U.S., which is "10 times more." The disparities between participants in the two countries in terms of income, education and access to care are "stark" and the playing field "uneven," writes American Medical News.