Quake3World

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."

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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".

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

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

:whitey:
ey?

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

:whitey:
ey?

British speak man...

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

:whitey:
ey?

*lol*

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.

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

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?

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