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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 09:00 AM

    The Key Issue is Consent

    Did these poor women know they were part of a clinical trial? If so, then that's how it goes in clinical trials -- some people get placebos.

    If not, then even the women got non-placebo drugs have been wronged, because they got drugs that were only in the testing phase and not approved by the FDA for wholesale use.

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