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The Associated Press/AP Online reports:

"Federal officials involved in a U.S.-funded study in Uganda endangered the lives of hundreds of patients testing an AIDS drug because of careless and negligent research practices, a government whistleblower said Tuesday.

Dr. Jonathan Fishbein said officials at the National Institutes of Health overlooked safety problems with the drug, which was being used to protect babies in Africa from HIV infection during birth.
The consequences of their failure 'have grave and sometimes fatal implications for the lives of real patients,' Fishbein said at a hearing before a panel of scientists from the independent Institute of Medicine. "