"UK regulators did not receive findings that might have warned them of damage TGN1412 could do." Continue reading →
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Four Top Doctors Arrested for illegal medical experiments_Israel
According to a investigative report issued by the Israeli Health Ministry, the doctors "conducted illegal and unethical testing on thousands of elderly patients for years.
Industry Influence: FDA “Critical Path”/ Biased Research: BMJ / NIH: still smoke & mirrors
The battle lines were drawn between those who recognize the corrosive effect that the pharmaceutical industry is having on the safety and integrity of medicine and medical research, and the powerful stakeholders–the pharmaceutical-academic industrial complex. Continue reading →
UK Chanel 4 Investigates: The Drug Trial That Went Wrong_Critique NEJM Editorial
“The Drug Trial That Went Wrong” is an investigative report by Chanel 4 (UK) about the circumstances surrounding the near fatal drug trial testing the safety of TGN1412, a monoclonal antibody drug, conducted in March 2006 at London’s Northwick Park Hospital. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/5377226.stm It airs momorrow. Continue reading →
Volunteers at Risk_Editorial, NEJM Justifies Catastrophic TGN1412 Experiment
"As long as we continue to manipulate biology in new ways, we probably cannot prevent all such events from occurring. We must do what we can to minimize risk, but the future health of the world population demands that we not let adverse events put an end to medical progress." Continue reading →
NYT Editorial: Safe Drug Testing in Prisons?
An editorial in today's New York Times is a follow-up to its riveting report by Ian Urbina on the recommendation by an Institute of Medicine panel to
lift 1978 federal restrictions on medical experiments on prisoners. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/us/13inmates.html?
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TGN1412 Deadly Drug Trial Victims Told To Expect Early Death
The full impact on six healthy volunteers who took part in a catastrophic experiment that nearly killed them is ever so slowly coming to light. Continue reading →
German Drug maker of disastrous TGN1412 files for insolvency_BBC
BBC reports: "TeGenero, a German pharmaceutical company, said it could not continue in business.Because of the fallout from the UK trial, it was impossible to attract investment, TeGenero said."
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Company Knew of the Catastrophic Risk–so did the British Medicines Authority
"Risks of anaphylaxis applies to all studies at PAREXEL, with drugs at every stage of development, and the staff are well trained in anticipation of this (unlikely) possibility.
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British Rethinking Rules After Ill-Fated Drug Trial_NYT
A front page report in The New York Times provides additonal information about the catastrophic TGN1412 medical experiment in which 6 previously healthy volunteers were intravenously injected with monoclonal antibody in a highly risky procedure.
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London Drug Trial Catastrophe: Collapse of Science and Ethics
The independent Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) challenges the report issued by the UK government medicines oversight agency, MHRA (equivalent to US FDA), absolving itself and those involved from any responsibility for a catastrophic human experiment that nearly killed six healthy volunteers.
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MHRA Releases Selective Documents–Where is Informed Consent Document?
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has released an interim report about the near fatal clinical trial of the monoclonal antibody, TGN1412, stating: