Then why are they all going out-of-country for the tests? And are you saying that you believe our government would never, ever overlook nefarious activity by a multi-national pharma corporation, or that their oversight is perfect?
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > Not really. the studies have to be approved by the institutional > review boards before the experiments are conducted. So unless there is > really strong justification nothing really harmful can be done. > Moreover the subject have to be guaranteed treatment of whatever > condition is being treated after the study is over. so at the very > least the subjects get treatment that they ordinarily would not be > receiving or could not afford. > > So are you against people receiving medical treatment? > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://goo.gl/14Dw > > > > "In recent years, there has been a steady shift of clinical research from > > testing in the U.S. and other developed nations to the developing world. > A > > report from the United States Department of Health and Human Services > noted > > that roughly 80 percent of drug approvals in 2008 were based in part on > data > > from outside the U.S. Eight percent of drugs approved for use in the U.S. > > were only tested using subjects in foreign nations.As more testing is > > outsourced to other nations, there is a very real moral worry that we are > > still exploiting the poor to serve as guinea pigs so we can improve our > > medical care." > > > > This is certainly quite chilling :( > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328870 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
