Every prescription medicine you take is tested on humans before the FDA approves it for sale and use. But if you assumed those tests are always done smartly, safely, and ethically under the watchful eyes of expert regulators, you would be wrong. Perhaps even dead wrong.
Reporters David Evans, Michael Smith and Liz Willen from Bloomberg Markets magazine discovered during a yearlong investigation that "across the U.S., the centers that do the testing -- and the regulators who watch them -- allow scores of people to be injured or killed."
Funders for Exposé: America's Investigative Reports include: Anderson Family Charitable Fund, The Jacob Burns Foundation, The Betsy & Jesse Fink Foundation, Philip Harper, Park Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bernard & Irene Schwartz, and Tracy & Eric Semler.