Posted on 03/15/2006 2:21:12 PM PST by blam
It sure sounds like they hadn't tried them on the right animals. You would think they would have seen the organ problem if they had.
Good Lord! A drug experiment gone horribly wrong. That's why we should use animals for medical experiments. This is going to be really bad for Parexel International and Tegenero AG.
More information and Thursday update:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060316/ap_on_re_eu/britain_drug_trial_6
LONDON - Six men who became ill during a drug trial remained in serious condition in a London hospital Thursday.
Two of the men were listed in critical condition, Northwick Park Hospital said in a statement.
Raste Khan — one of two men given a placebo in the trial — said the six had been stricken within a few minutes of receiving the drug.
"Everyone was continuously vomiting," Khan said in an interview broadcast Thursday on Sky News.
They were "fainting, coming back to consciousness. Again I assume they had headaches, because a lot of them were kind of like holding their heads," he said.
One man was screaming and complained of pain in his back, Khan said.
The six men had been given does of TGN1412, a monoclonal antibody developed by TeGenero AG of Wuerzburg, Germany, for treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and leukemia.
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