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Thursday, December 7, 2006 12:00 AM

Glaxo's guinea pigs

The pharma giant is accused of putting pregnant women at risk in unethical drug trials.
Carol Lloyd

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  • Thursday, December 7, 2006 08:13 AM

    Not sure I get the logic

    Glaxo didn't put these women in *more* danger than they already were, they just didn't put them in *less* danger. The women given the placebo were no worse off than they would have been had they not been involved with the drug trial at all. You have to have a control group for *any* experiment like this, right? If you know you're involved in a drug trial, you know you might be getting a placebo. That's just the way things are.

    —Kate

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