That article doesn't say anything about testing outside the US other than the quote that you provided which is a quote taken from a totally different Op Ed.
Lots of drug testing is done outside the US because lots of medical research happens outside the US. A friend of mine who organizes clinical drug trials recently coordinated a trial involving doctors in the US, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic. That's a good thing because, amongst other things, new drugs will be used all over the world and having a larger representative sample in clinical trials will improve the chances that the results you see will match up with the results you'll see when/if the drug is widely available. Now, there very well may be unethical drug experimentation going on by pharmaceutical companies in developing nations. I'm certainly not a fan of big phrama and I would not be surprised if they were taking advantage of lax laws and power vacuums in weak countries. However, the simple fact that drug approvals are based in part on data collected outside the US is no indicator of that. In fact, that is a *good* thing. We've seen nasty problems that have resulted from clinical trials that were done all on white male Americans and then we find out that certain side effects are much more prevalent in other groups, like black women, that weren't recognized early on because they weren't part of the trail groups. Judah On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:31 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:328893 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
