Frightening Reality:, Your Doctor Could be Experimenting on You.

[Guest guest]

HEALTH-INDIA:Petri Dish for Pharmaceutical MNCsAnn De Ron Full article at: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33907BANGALORE, Jul 10 (IPS) - Pharmaceutical multinationals, seeking to ramp up profits through cheap drug trials, are increasingly turning to India with its combination of a vast pool of poor, ignorant patients on the one hand and skilled medical personnel and fine research infrastructure on the other. The trend was noted in the United Nations Conference on Trade and development (UNCTAD) in its Trade and Development report for 2005. The U.N. body estimated that pharma firms could reduce costs on research and development by 20-30 percent through outsourcing to India. But there are

flies in the ointment. A rash of cases of unethical trials conducted by contract research organisations (CROs), that are rapidly mushrooming up, have been reported recently by both international and local media. In April, a BBC investigative report cited several examples of unethical trials and authorities are now waking up to what may be large-scale exploitation of unsuspecting patients, desperately in need of medication for various ailments. Already under investigation is the ‘wrong use' case of a pharmaceutical company inducing doctors to prescribe to more than 400 women ‘Letrozole', a breast cancer drug. The results of the covert trials were then used to promote the drug for unapproved use. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." -

Aurobindo.

Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs.

Try it free.