By Sonia Shah
An eye-opening examine mammoth Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials within the worldwide South.
"Medical examine imposes burdens. yet usually conversing, we do not prefer to be aware of it….If the heritage of human experimentation tells us whatever, from the bloody vivisections of the 1st millennium to the Tuskegee Syphilis learn, it truly is that such burdens made mystery will fall heaviest at the poorest and so much powerless between us."—from The physique Hunters
This groundbreaking ebook unearths the unethical drug-testing practices of the multinational pharmaceutical undefined. In its quest to improve profitable new medicines for the world's wealthy, the has became clear of the well-being wishes of the world's terrible. And but, over the last decade, titanic Pharma has quietly exported its scientific learn company to the worldwide South, the place moral oversight is minimum, and ill, bad, and determined sufferers are abundant.
In The physique Hunters, investigative journalist Sonia Shah exhibits how the pharmaceutical is utilizing trying out strategies within the worldwide South that will reason scandals within the constructed global. In India, dozens of sufferers in drug trials have perished ache lethal unintended effects identified to the FDA; in Zambia, AIDS infants in scientific trials were administered placebos.
The physique Hunters relies on a number of years of unique examine and reporting from Africa and Asia, and describes dozens of trials, in addition to the checkered heritage of Western clinical technology in terrible nations.
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Breast cancer rates are higher. . Cancer mortality among men in Poland is the highest in Eastern Europe. . ” He paused briefly for a slide showing a map of Europe, which had blood-red marks indicating the death rate from all causes. ” Indeed, it looked as if a bottle of red ink had been spilled over the map of Russia. The stain had spread over all of Eastern Europe too, but France, Italy, and Spain were nearly pristine, marred by a scant few speckles. National borders marked the difference between life and death, drawn in whispery black lines.
11 Even trials for what would turn out to be breakthrough cancer drugs like Genentech’s breast-cancer drug Herceptin almost withered and died for lack of willing subjects. 12 The unmentioned reality is that cancer patients are hardly irrational in judging new drugs unworthy of their trouble. Despite the huge amount of investment in cancer research, “success has largely eluded us,” admitted industry scientist David Horrobin. ”13 For many other conditions, useful drugs are already in adequate abundance.
20 At first, CROs performed this trick by capitalizing on a previously unexploited pool of potential subjects: the millions of patients treated at local clinics and private practices by community physicians. S. borders. After all, the FDA had long allowed drug companies to submit data from clinical trials conducted outside the United States, in 1987 even going so far as to accept a new drug application with data solely from overseas trials. Back then there had been no big stampede abroad, as academic investigators considered data from developing countries unreliable.