Thursday, September 28, 2006

Clinical Drug Trials in Humans

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BBC4 aired a very good radio show about the TGN1412 disaster that took place at Northwick Park hospital in north London England when a new monoclonal antibody leukemia drug was tried on humans the first time. This isn't some baby-portion sound bite for intellectually challenged individuals, it takes the BBC around 40 mintues to look into it.
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My Leukemia Doctor in England, Professor Terry Hamblin was one of the people in this radio show because he was one of those experts who was appointed by the British government to the group which looked into the procedure used in this case and also in general looked into the protocols that are used in the testing of new drugs in people in the UK.
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One of the issues they looked at is using the technology of the internet to share far more information than has been shared previously.
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When you have the time you should listen to this radio show. Its really quite interesting.

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LINK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/pip/py6ln/
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