India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon

"We are low-caste people :

and normally when we go to the hospital we are given a five-rupee voucher,

but the doctor said he would give us a foreign drug costing 125,000 rupees "  hocked:

Did you get your flu shot yet Bro?

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Did you get your flu shot yet Bro?
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Never had it ....never will  :wink:

Fresh Vitamin C via fresh fruits .. 

Drug companies are facing mounting pressure to investigate reports :

that new medicines are being tested on some of the poorest people in India

without their knowledge.... [img alt=::redface::]http://www.westindiesforum.com/Smileys/default/icon_redface.gif[/img]

Narayan Survaiya's mother Tizuja Bai died:

several weeks after being given new drugs  ad:

           

happens all over the world

Mrs Bai was experiencing chest pains.

Their status as Dalits - the bottom of the Hindu caste system :

once known as untouchables -

meant that they were both accustomed to going to the back of the queue

when they arrived and waiting many hours before seeing a doctor.... ::redface::

But this time it was different and they were seen immediately.  ::redcard::

"The doctor took the five-rupee voucher given to BLPs [Below the Poverty Line]

like us and said the rest would be paid for :

by a special government fund for poor people"  ::eek::

She did not know was that her mother-in-law was being enrolled in a drugs trial !!

for the drug Tonapofylline :

which was being tested by Biogen Idec.