• The health authority is currently investigating the conditions of clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine carried out at the start of the pandemic.

  • A first report of these facts was closed in November 2020 by the Marseille prosecutor's office but new elements have since appeared, such as a corrective to the first study, published in January.

  • To relaunch the investigation, it would be necessary either for the prosecution to seize it ex officio or for the ANSM to make a new report.

The Marseille IHU is once again the target of investigations.

After the search of the institute of Professor Raoult as part of the investigation into its financial links with the Research and Development Institute, it is the Medicines Agency (ANSM) which is investigating.

"The ANSM was recently alerted, as part of its system for whistleblowers, on possible breaches of the IHU of Marseille in the regulation of clinical trials on certain studies that the Institute has conducted", the drug gendarme explained to AFP.

The health authority "is currently carrying out the necessary investigations and verifications" and "if the investigations reveal any breaches of the regulation of clinical trials" it "will take health measures to guarantee the safety of the participants and, if necessary, will take action. new justice ”, she assured.

An investigation closed without follow-up relaunched?

At the start of the Covid pandemic, several scientists familiar with medical articles were alarmed about the conditions for carrying out two studies signed by Didier Raoult, director of the IHU on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 .

A report of these facts by "a health professional" was closed in November 2020 by the Marseille prosecutor who considered the offenses denounced as "insufficiently characterized", according to its press release.

However, new elements have since emerged, such as a fix to the first study, published in January in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

But to relaunch the investigation, it would be necessary either for the prosecution to seize it ex officio or for the ANSM to make a new report which underlines that the IHU "did not follow up" to its questions.

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