wired.com — How India became the global hot spot for drug trials. Big pharmas have a billion people vying to be part of clinical trials of untested drugs. Areas known only for snakes and heat now have good hospitals after the government passed a law allowing the drug testing and advertised its "treatment naive" patients.
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aonicFeb 28, 2006
title is misleading. most of these people take the trial drugs because they cant afford to take real medication.
mrgenericFeb 28, 2006
Given the genetic differences in people across the world and how well drugs work in different groups according to their genetic profile one has to wonder how useful drug trials conducted in homogeneous populations can be.Perhaps they are not trying to be fine grained in their results, just keeping it to simple stuff such as, will it kill you or not?
kingswayFeb 28, 2006
So far this week, almost every article from the current Wired has been posted. Jeez...just buy the magazine and stop posting the entire thing on digg.
oneoffmanmentalMar 1, 2006
This is where neo-liberal economic policies get you. You end up laden with all the risks America and Europe do not want - ecological, human rights, ethnic conflict, etc...Welcome to the Risk Society.Dugg!
Closed AccountMar 1, 2006
@olegk"Yes, there are drugs that went bad, in a long run (Vioxx, Bextra, Zyprexa, Accutane,...). But you know what, those drugs had one problem in a hunder thousands. That's safer than driving a car, even safer than flying. Those rare cases just didn't show up in the trials, even in large samples. And that's why FDA approved. Those drug companies didn't want to kill anybody. Any death means zero (or negative) profit."This is so not true. The drug companies use selective studies to show that their drugs are safe, when in reality, they are not. And I used to be a researcher's assistant for the drug companies testing out their drugs......where we submit results back to the drug companies. What they do with it is their business.......leave out the bad results, include the good results saying their drugs are safe. It's a hypocracy.
rawsteakMar 1, 2006
title is misleading. article totally not about italians or the nation of italy
rattelerMar 2, 2006
lol @ Rawsteak. And I thought my Dalsim joke was raw. LMFAO.