eighty of the 532 children who participated in clinical trials or observational studies died while in foster care; • twenty-five of the children died while enrolled in a medication trial; • sixty-four children participated in thirty medication trials that were NOT REVIEWED by a special medical advisory panel, as the city’s policy required; • and twenty-one children participated in trials that the panel had reviewed but had NOT RECOMMENDED. • (In both cases, thirteen of the enrollments occurred before the children were placed in foster care.)
