Drug trial goes pear-shaped, 6 men throw terminal whitey

Post by **4days** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:28 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4808614.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 807042.stm
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 808836.stm

"Two men are critically ill in the intensive care unit of Northwick Park hospital, and another four are seriously ill after taking an anti-inflammatory drug as part of a drug trial."

Post by **Absolut** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:00 pm

And they are supprised they are ill and may die from the experiment?

Post by **Foo** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:48 pm

Um, yes. Thousands of these clinical trials happen annually, and the safety checks before any of these drugs reaches any form of human consumption is extreme.

Post by **Transient** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:31 pm

It's a trial for a reason, Foo. To weed out the things they don't catch with initial checks.

Post by **4days** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:42 pm

they interviewed the girlfriend of one of the potential pre-corpses on the radio (where the copy for the most recent story has come from).
was disturbing listening, made you feel sorry for the poor bloke.

there he is, expecting a headache and a touch of soupy flatulence as a quick fix to his debt problems, when all of his organs stop working and he swells up like the elephant man. that's got to suck.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:42 pm

Transient wrote:It's a trial for a reason, Foo. To weed out the things they don't catch with initial checks.

Yeah totally, but it is big news when something goes this badly wrong because it's extremely rare.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:44 pm

its like buying a car from a gypsy and wondering why the wheels fell off

Post by **Jackal** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:50 pm

The drugs are still tested for safety, as Foo already stated. So it isn't exactly like "buying a car from a gypsy and wondering why the wheels fell off".

Post by **losCHUNK** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:56 pm

i bet that car was tested by a certified gypsy who used to work for the AA

Post by **Fender** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:11 pm

I'm still baffled by the thread title.

Looks like something plained would write to me.

:whitey:
ey?

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:15 pm

Fender wrote:I'm still baffled by the thread title.
Looks like something plained would write to me.

:whitey:
ey?

British speak man...

Post by **feedback** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:38 pm

Fender wrote:I'm still baffled by the thread title.
Looks like something plained would write to me.

:whitey:
ey?

*lol*

Post by **mjrpes** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:37 pm

Foo wrote:Um, yes. Thousands of these clinical trials happen annually, and the safety checks before any of these drugs reaches any form of human consumption is extreme.

You are certainly right that a good amound of testing is done before a drug is given to humans, seeing as this fiasco is exactly what a firm wants to avoid. But these firms are not doing a good public relations job at the moment and are sending mix messages to the families of the victims.

Did the drug kill a dog or not?

They should explain clearly and immediately the testing that was done that gave researchers good confidence this drug would be OK for humans.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:38 pm

Holy fuck, my housemates have been trialing anti-inflamitary drugs :icon28:

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:41 pm

Don Carlos wrote:
Fender wrote:I'm still baffled by the thread title.
Looks like something plained would write to me.

:whitey:
ey?
British speak man...

Care to elaborate?

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:59 pm

Drug trial goes pear-shaped, 6 men throw terminal whitey = Drug trail goes horribly wrong, 6 men are at deaths door.