Feds charge an­oth­er CRO staffer with fak­ing da­ta in a Glax­o­SmithK­line pe­di­atric asth­ma study

A Flori­da woman has been in­dict­ed as part of a clin­i­cal tri­al fraud scheme over a Glax­o­SmithK­line pe­di­atric asth­ma study, the Jus­tice De­part­ment an­nounced Tues­day, the lat­est de­vel­op­ment in a case where three in­di­vid­u­als have al­ready plead­ed guilty.

Jes­si­ca Pala­cio was charged with par­tic­i­pat­ing in a plot to fal­si­fy med­ical records, giv­ing off the ap­pear­ance that tri­al par­tic­i­pants were mak­ing their sched­uled vis­its to a Mi­a­mi CRO and tak­ing an ex­per­i­men­tal asth­ma med­ica­tion as re­quired. Pala­cio was al­so charged with ly­ing to FDA in­ves­ti­ga­tors about her con­duct.

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