On AlterNet: clinical trials

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Unregulated Clinical Trials, Exploitation, and Profit: How the FDA Allows Big Pharma to Exploit the Poor in South America

Kelly Hearn, The Nation. September 28, 2011.

In South America, Big Pharma takes advantage of an extreme lack of FDA oversight by conducting unwarranted, unsafe experiments on the poor.

Big Pharma Testing Drugs on India’s Poor

Viji Sundaram, Zeina Awad, New America Media. August 7, 2011.

Pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the country’s vast number of illiterate and poor people who are willing to become guinea pigs.

Most Results of Drug Studies Never Published

Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. September 29, 2008.

The results of over half of all clinical trials on drug safety and effectiveness are not published within five years of the drug going on the market.

Help Wanted: Human Guinea Pigs

Betsy Model, The Internationalist. May 9, 2007.

If you've ever wondered why we so rarely hear of drug trials going awry in the United States, it is because we "offshore" the drug trials to developing nations who can't afford to say no.