Experimenting without consent
2020-04-11 20:27:29.998232+02 by
Dan Lyke
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He acknowledged that some families were not aware their relatives were put on the drug, saying that "for the most part," he consulted with each nursing home resident prior to giving them on the tablets.
While the "overwhelming majority of them are awake and alert and can actually have a conversation," Armstrong said some suffer from middle stages of dementia. In some cases, he did not discuss prescribing the tablets with anyone at all before doing so. He said it is common for physicians to prescribe new medications to patients without explicit consent from the patient or family members. "It's not required," he said.
Ignoring the fact that the "study" design is total crap, Cassandra, Irredeemable Pudgy Nobody
@ChrisWarcraft points out that "We hanged Nazis for doing this."
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#Comment Re: Experimenting without consent made: 2020-04-14 20:02:23.247735+02 by:
Dan Lyke
Yeah, pretty sure those AZT patients had informed consent.
#Comment Re: Experimenting without consent made: 2020-04-14 00:27:47.165598+02 by:
stevesh
From an article on scpr.org:
The 1987 approval of azidothymidine — AZT — as the first AIDS medicine, was a
game-changer for the FDA, he says. The agency approved AZT without waiting for
the long clinical trials required in other drug approvals. It did this on
condition that the drugmaker, Burroughs Wellcome, would continue to study
patients taking the drug, and report the results back to the FDA. That decision
by the agency has paved the way for accelerated approval pathways for other
drugs.
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