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Clinical Trials - don't do it

Rose-Kitten [Edit] [Delete] 13:01, 16 March '06

I'm just reading the article in the paper, that descibed how six volunteers collapsed, writingi n agony and eded up 'lookin like the Elephant Man' after being given trial injections of a new drug, TGN1412 (which if you google, turns out it's some kind of drug to test in the treatment against leukemia...
I was totally tempted as a student to do tests for the cash.. Guys, all you students out there, think twice.. This is horrific...

".. head swollen to nearly three times it's normal size.. neck the same and his skin had turned a dark purple..."

Frightening!

What do you think of clinical trials? I mean, I know it's necessary or we wouldn't have scientific breakthroughs, but this just seems really intense..............


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