[privacy] 'Devastating' Trial Results for Controversial Artificial Blood Product

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Not directly related to privacy issues, but rather more directly
related to "informed consent" issues.

Via ABC News' "The Blotter".

[snip]

A controverisal drug experiment, involving artificial blood given to
accident victims without their consent, resulted in a 40 percent higher
death rate than the standard treatment given to a control group.

Preliminary trial results released yesterday revealed that 46 subjects died
after receiving the experimental blood substitute, Polyheme. There were 35
deaths among patients in the control group who received the standard care
of saline solution in the field and real blood in the hospital.

An ABC News investigation this year raised questions about the propriety of
administering the experimental product to subjects without their consent.

[snip]

More:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/devastating_tri.html

Critical background information:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/03/medical-tech-ethicists-blast-fake.html
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/07/artifical-blood-experiment-hits-27-us.
html
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/07/fda-to-consider-another-artificial.htm
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http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/09/us-government-to-review-rules-allowing
.html

- - ferg

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