UK: Millions of people are victims of counterfeit drug research

Millions of British patients have used drugs that are unsafe but still circulated based on the results of a false study created by a leading anesthesiologist, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Dr. Joachim Boldt once gave a presentation in Vietnam on colloidal topics - Photo: thestar.com.my

Joachim Boldt, a 57-year-old German doctor, has many articles in British scientific papers, currently the subject of investigation amid allegations that he faked up to 90% of his research. Mr. Boldt has now lost his professorship and was dismissed from the position of anesthesiologist at Ludwigshafen Hospital (Germany) after accusing him of faking studies of a drug called colloid.

Colloid, a colloid drug dedicated to surgeries, has been prescribed to millions of patients in the UK based on the 'prestigious' research of Professor Boldt.

Currently the Ministry of Health is considering continuing to use colloid after four of Mr. Boldt's major studies on colloid have been officially rejected. Experts are also planning to dismiss about 89 more of Dr. Boldt's research works.

Mr. Boldt was suspected of cheating a decade ago, when he published many articles demonstrating the safety of colloids, in contrast to many previous studies suggesting that colloid can cause kidney failure and loss. blood and heart failure for users. A study by the University of London in 1998 found that colloid can increase the mortality rate in patients by 4%.

Professor Rupert Pearse, one of the first to question Dr. Bolt's research, said that he began to doubt the numbers in research data ' too perfect to be true '. .

Criminal investigation

The German authorities are also opening a criminal investigation into Mr. Boldt about other allegations such as forging documents and testing drugs on patients without their consent and demanding money for surgeries. does not exist.

Investigators also noticed that Mr. Boldt received funding from specialized colloid companies such as B. Braun, Baxter and Fresenius Kabi. Mr. Boldt was also paid for in international conferences, where he frequently praised colloid as a kind of "miracle " in surgery.

It is known that the price of colloid is 10 times more expensive than crystalloid - a drug that is evaluated to have a similar feature but is safer for users.

Analysts say this may be the biggest medical scandal in the UK since Andrew Wakefield, the British surgeon, has claimed a link between vaccines and autism. Although Wakefield's 1998 study was later rejected by many reputable medical organizations, its consequences continue to this day.

Many parents feared and did not allow their children to vaccinate measles, mumps, rubella vaccines, leading to the return of measles in many Western countries, countries that had previously been eradicated. this disease.