Daily Dose - Update on the drug trial from hell

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Within hours of taking their doses via injection: * Several test subjects in the chemical group started tearing off their clothes in agony or claiming their heads felt like they were about to explode * One 28-year old subject's head and neck rapidly swelled to three times the normal size, while others complained of stabbing pains in their backs * All of the subjects in the chemical group passed out after vomiting and writhing in pain as through stricken with palsy * All six chemical-group subjects experienced precipitous plunges in their white-cell counts (the blood cells vital to immunity) within hours of the trial. * All six subjects in the TGN1412 test group experienced multiple organ failure and had to be rushed to the hospital's ICU All this agony came from what was expected to be a SUB-CLINICAL dose of the drug - 1/500th of what animal studies indicated was tolerable! Of course, the trial itself fell woefully short

of established standards in the areas of medical oversight and due diligence - especially with regard to the administration of experimental drugs. TGN1412 had never been tested on humans before (and may never have been sufficiently tested on animals), and so warranted extra precautions outlined in the Textbook of Pharmaceutical Medicine. These guidelines were ignored in the trial. I'm sure this is cold comfort to the victims, all of which were hospitalized for weeks (one stayed more than three months) and one of which now faces a mysterious new case of CANCER. Keep reading... **************************************************** WHO NEEDS GLASSES? In as little as eight weeks you could be reading without your glasses or contact lenses...and without surgery or strenuous eye exercises. Now, thanks to an exciting program developed at the internationally acclaimed Cambridge Institute for Better Vision, you may be able to

discard your glasses - for life! http://www1.youreletters.com/t/408982/14395857/794771/330/ **************************************************** To start receiving your own copy of the Daily Dose, visit: http://www.douglassreport.com/dailydose/freecopy.html Or forward this e-mail to a friend so they can sign-up to receive their own copy of the Daily Dose. **************************************************** According to Wikipedia and other sources, one of the volunteers in the chemical group for TGN1412 has developed early signs of lymphoid malignancy since the fateful Ides of March trial... Another article (Sunday Times from July 30th) cites one immunologist who claims the volunteers are all now woefully deficient in T-cells,

averaging between one third and one fifth of what normal, healthy men of their age range should have. You don't need to be an immunologist to surmise that this portends major health risks for these poor folks in the future. The head of the pharmacology program at University College London concurs, estimating that these victims of shoddy oversight and criminally negligent trial design may never have normal lives - and are likely to endure long-term immune-system deficiencies. All of the men involved in the trial's chemical group have been advised that they may face a lifetime of susceptibility to cancer, MS, lupus, arthritis, and all manner of other autoimmune diseases... And just think about this: This "drug trial of Dr. Moreau" took place in Britain, where the press is extremely powerful in its ability to uncover facts and information. Yet every drug out there went through early-stage, small-scale experimental human trials somewhere. Makes you

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