Nigerian authorities slapped criminal charges on Pfizer this month, alleging that the company’s infamous 1996 botched antibiotic trial there was “rash and negligent,” and endangered lives.
Some of the subjects in the trial died, others suffered permanent disability, and the prosecutors say it’s Pfizer’s fault for providing a too-low dose of its comparator drug. (Listen to [...]
No sympathy from Tauzin—a cancer survivor himself—for those sickly elders compelled to hobble onto buses to Canada to buy affordable medicines, either: according to Tauzin, these unfortunates are no better than Al-Quaeda conspirators “opening our borders…to future terrorist attacks.” (And for those concerned about the potential for abuse in tens of thousands of secretive clinical [...]
Important bans protecting prisoners from medical experimentation are on the verge of dissolution.
As reported by the New York Times today in a front-page story, last month the Institute of Medicine recommended that federal agencies drop the bans. The bans, long justified by the fact that people behind bars can scarcely be viewed as voluntarily consensual, [...]
Last week’s front-page Washington Poststory detailing a long-suppressed Nigerian government report on Pfizer’s botched 1996 experiment on Nigerian children shines much needed light on a dark corner of globalization: the drug industry’s human experiments overseas. But those who are now calling for stricter regulations on the practice aren’t goingnearly far enough.
According to the May 7 [...]
Something went horribly wrong in an early experimental trial of a German start-up drug company’s new cancer-and-arthritis med. Sometime last week, the drug—TGN 1412—was given to 6 healthy volunteers in a routine Phase 1 trial, designed to test the drug’s safety. Today, all six of those volunteers are laid up in intensive care wards in [...]
Proving pesticides are safe by testing them on humans is harder than proving them safe by testing on animals, so the new standards are actually higher, not lower–i.e. more likely to protect public health! so long as pesticides are being used, i think it is good that the EPA is requiring human testing. why should [...]
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