The pharmaceutical industry make sure that drugs that end up in the market are safe and perform as intended
WITH reference to Syed Nadzri’s commentary on the “The Manipulation of medical research” (NST, July 7), it is prudent to point out several issues concerning his and Dr Horton’s conclusions.
When University of Maryland School of Medicine in the US researchers were looking for volunteers to test a vaccine for Ebola, which was killing thousands of people in West Africa, Andrea Buchwald raised her hand in Baltimore.
“Scientific curiosity,” the 29-year-old graduate research assistant in Maryland’s department of epidemiology said, explaining why – along with her trust in the system governing treatment of human subjects – she was willing to be experimented on.
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