Feds Some AIDS Drug Tests Violated Rules (2).htm

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The words used to write this article don't convey what happened to

some of these children in these so called trials. They are discussing

whether they followed minor rules of appointing advocates or not. They

could have found compliant " advocates " who will do anything for money.

But what horrible experiments that were done to these helpless

children in the name of science/medicine was unconsionable and

criminal and the people who were involved should spend the rest of

their lives behind bars.

 

Some articles on these things have been posted a few times before here

in this group.(search archives to read them) Some explained briefly what was

done to some of these children, some of which were infants and the horrible

torturous results and the callous disregard by the medical authorities, the

people in charge of these children, the politicians, and the pharmaceutical

companies involved, but as I said above, some people will do anything for money.

 

The article says: " Foster care agencies and frontline researchers

who enrolled foster kids said they did so in an effort to get them

cutting-edge drug treatments not available in the marketplace during

the AIDS crisis of the early 1990s and that their efforts

helped kids live longer. " Liars of this magnitude deserve the same

punishment as the perpetrators.

 

 

As an aside, the original story (which was posted to group here) written by a

reporter who did all of the original research went around for many months and

could not get it published or even obtain any interest by any of the major

media. He finally posted it on the internet. F.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:35:36 +0200

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Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

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Feds: Some AIDS Drug Tests Violated Rules

 

By JOHN SOLOMON

The Associated Press

Thursday, June 16, 2005; 1:45 PM

 

WASHINGTON -- The government has concluded at

least some AIDS drug experiments involving foster

children violated federal rules designed to

ensure vulnerable youths were protected from the

risks of medical research.

 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'

Office of Human Research Protections concluded

that Columbia University Presbyterian Medical

Center in New York, where several foster children

were enrolled in drug studies in the 1990s,

failed to obtain and evaluate whether it had

proper consent, information and safeguards for

the foster kids.

 

" When some or all of the subjects (e.g.,

children) are likely to be vulnerable to coercion

or undue influence, additional safeguards have

been included in the HHS regulations to protect

the rights and welfare of these subjects, " the

federal agency wrote the research hospital.

 

The hospital's " records demonstrate a failure ...

to obtain sufficient information regarding such

safeguards with respect to the enrollment of

wards of the state or foster children, " the

agency concluded.

 

The Associated Press reported May 4 that

federally funded researchers in New York,

Illinois and several other states tested AIDS

drugs on hundreds of foster children since the

1980s, often without providing the children with

special advocates to protect their rights and

interests.

 

Marilyn Castaldi, a spokeswoman for Columbia

Presbyterian, did not immediately return calls

Wednesday and Thursday seeking comment.

 

But the hospital acknowledged in correspondence

with the government that it was " in the process

of planning steps specifically to improve

protections for children, and particularly foster

children. "

 

The hospital told the government it is increasing

the resources to its Institutional Review Boards

that monitor the safety of its experiments,

improving training for researchers and creating a

Web-based system that ensures necessary

information for patient safety is collected.

 

The government cited Columbia Presbyterian in a

letter dated May 23 with violating rules in at

least four AIDS studies involving foster

children, including:

 

_Failing to " obtain sufficient information

regarding the selection of wards of the state and

foster children as research subjects. "

 

_Failing to " obtain sufficient information

regarding the process for obtaining permission of

parents or guardians for wards of the state or

foster children. "

 

_Failing to have enough information to ensure the

selection of patients for the studies was

" equitable. "

 

Federal rules require researchers to provide

independent advocates to foster children in a

narrow class of experiments that pose more than a

minimal risk and do not hold the likelihood of

improved health for the test patients. Those

rules also require the researchers to follow any

additional safeguards imposed by state and local

authorities.

 

In New York City and Illinois, where more than

650 foster children combined were enrolled in

AIDS drugs tests since the late 1980s, the states

required researchers to sign agreements promising

to provide the advocates for all foster children.

 

Several of the research institutions, including

Columbia Presbyterian, told AP last month that

they did not believe they needed to provide the

advocates because their experiments held the

promise of improved health for the children.

Medical ethicists disagreed, saying the foster

kids were vulnerable and required the added

protection.

 

Other states, like Wisconsin, said they wouldn't

even consider using foster children in such

medical testing because of their vulnerabilities.

 

Foster care agencies and frontline researchers

who enrolled foster kids said they did so in an

effort to get them cutting-edge drug treatments

not available in the marketplace during the AIDS

crisis of the early 1990s and that their efforts

helped kids live longer.

 

AP's story prompted a congressional hearing, at

which experts testified that the standards for

enrolling foster children in medical experiments

varied widely across the country. Some lawmakers

complained that the foster kids had fewer

protections than prisoners.

 

The Bush administration told Congress it believed

the current legal protections for foster children

were adequate if followed, but that it does not

monitor researchers to ensure that they have

complied with the rules.

 

OHRP's ruling is the first that federal research

involving AIDS drugs and foster children violated

federal protections. It was prompted by a

complaint filed last year by the Alliance for

Human Research Protection, an advocacy group in

New York which raised concerns about a New York

Post story documenting AIDS drug testing at a

Catholic charity foster home in the city.

 

The federal agency is withholding a decision on

whether Columbia Presbyterian should have

provided the foster children with independent

advocates until it receives more information. But

it criticized the hospital for not collecting

enough information to even make decisions on what

regulations it needed to comply with to protect

the children.

 

The investigation " revealed no evidence " that the

hospital's review board " considered and made the

required findings when reviewing this research

involving children, " OHRP concluded.

 

© 2005 The Associated Press

 

 

 

 

--

 

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition.

 

Sepp Hasslberger

 

 

My page on physics, new energy, economy: http://www.hasslberger.com/

 

Critical perspective on Health: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/

[Guest guest]

Here are some links to the original story on the children in New

York's Incarnation Children's Center, as written by Liam Scheff, the

courageous journalist who insisted until he did get his investigation

published, although the mainstream press wouldn't touch it. The gory

details are being downplayed, even as the official investigation

finds that the foster children were illegally drafted into these

experiments.

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/11/05/azt_nevirapine_children_in_new_y\

ork_orphanage_given_toxic_drugs.htm

 

 

 

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/15/aids_experiments_on_children_in_\

new_yorks_incarnation_center_a_human_tragedy.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:19:28 -0000

" califpacific " <califpacific

Feds Some AIDS Drug Tests Violated Rules (2).htm

 

The words used to write this article don't convey what happened to

some of these children in these so called trials. They are discussing

whether they followed minor rules of appointing advocates or not. They

could have found compliant " advocates " who will do anything for money.

But what horrible experiments that were done to these helpless

children in the name of science/medicine was unconsionable and

criminal and the people who were involved should spend the rest of

their lives behind bars.

 

Some articles on these things have been posted a few times before here

in this group.(search archives to read them) Some explained briefly

what was done to some of these children, some of which were infants

and the horrible torturous results and the callous disregard by the

medical authorities, the people in charge of these children, the

politicians, and the pharmaceutical companies involved, but as I said

above, some people will do anything for money.

 

The article says: " Foster care agencies and frontline researchers

who enrolled foster kids said they did so in an effort to get them

cutting-edge drug treatments not available in the marketplace during

the AIDS crisis of the early 1990s and that their efforts

helped kids live longer. " Liars of this magnitude deserve the same

punishment as the perpetrators.

 

 

As an aside, the original story (which was posted to group here)

written by a reporter who did all of the original research went

around for many months and could not get it published or even obtain

any interest by any of the major media. He finally posted it on the

internet. F.

 

 

--

 

 

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition.

 

Sepp Hasslberger

 

 

My page on physics, new energy, economy: http://www.hasslberger.com/

 

Critical perspective on Health: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/