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Open thread April 26, 2012

Dan Crawford | April 26, 2013 5:43 pm

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  • rjs says:
    April 27, 2013 at 7:47 am

    from the Times of India, another lesson on how we win friends and influence people from other countries:
    2,644 died during clinical trial of drugs in 7 years: Govt to SC –
    As many as 2,644 people, called subjects, died during the clinical trials of 475 new drugs on human beings in last seven years and only 17 of the medicines were approved for marketing in India,  Indians were used as guinea pigs by foreign pharmaceutical majors for human trial of their new drugs, the Union health and family welfare ministry said. of the 57,303 enrolled subjects, 39,022 completed the clinical trials. “Serious adverse events of deaths during the clinical trials during the said period were 2,644, out of which 80 deaths were found to be attributable to the clinical trials,” “Around 11,972 serious adverse events (excluding death) were reported during the period from January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2012, out of which 506 events were found to be related to clinical trials,” Clinical trial of two drugs – Bayer’s Rivaroxaban and Novartis’s Aliskiren vs. Enalapril – accounted for maximum number of deaths. Bayer’s Rivaroxaban was first used for human trials in 2008 resulting in death of 21 of which it claimed that only five were related to clinical trial but it has till date paid compensation to kin of only two. Two years later, the same drug was again put on human trial and this time 125 deaths were reported, of which it was stated that five were related to clinical trial. Novartis used the investigational product listed as Aliskiren vs. Enalapril last year and it resulted in death of 47 of which only one has been attributed to clinical trial of the new drug. Only another clinical trial of new drug on humans, Sun Pharma’s Paclitaxel injection concentrate for nano-dispersion, registered a double-digit death figure (12) during the last seven years. Majority of the pharmaceutical companies, whose drugs were permitted for clinical trial on human beings, were of foreign origin.

    remember this next time someone walks into a crowd of Americans with a bomb…

  • sammy says:
    April 27, 2013 at 9:48 am

    Bayer is a German company, Novartis is Swiss, Sun Pharma is Indian.

  • rjs says:
    April 27, 2013 at 10:11 am

    you’re right Sammy; i realized that after i posted the above…i’m just so used to reports of indiscriminate killing of foreigners by American government and industry i just assumed it was us on my first reading…

  • save_the_rustbelt says:
    April 27, 2013 at 10:47 am

    The odds of a successful on-time roll out of major Obamacare programs seems to be declining by the day.

    Stress levels rising among puzzled employers. Stress levels sky rocketing among providers as they try to get ready for a future with too many cause-and-effect unknowns, while trying to implement an EMR roll out that is full of bugs and problems.

    Stay tuned…..

  • Cynthia says:
    April 27, 2013 at 11:19 am

    GE creates a commercial using Agent Smith, the agent of good, to connect patients with hospitals:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oStlg02C_WM

    GE has lost sizable market share in the medical imaging space due to fierce competition from smaller players here and larger players abroad. And I don’t think this Matrix-inspired teevee ad is gonna do anything to help this DOW component regain its market share. No amount of red and blue suckers can transform GE back into a leading and dominant player in the medical imaging space.

  • rjs says:
    April 27, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    inventories added 1.03% to the annual rate change in Q1 GDP; 87% of that was a rebuilding of farm inventories…here’s the full report, html version: http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2013/txt/gdp1q13_adv.txt

    media coverage is typical:
     U.S. Economy Grows Less Than Expected in 1Q – U.S. economic growth regained speed in the first quarter, but not as much as expected, which could heighten fears the already weakening economy could struggle to handle deep government spending cuts and higher taxes. Gross domestic product expanded at 2.5% annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Friday, after growth nearly stalled at 0.4% in the fourth quarter. The increase, however, missed economists’ expectations for a 3.0% growth pace. Part of the acceleration in activity reflected farmers’ filling up silos after a drought last summer decimated crop output. Removing inventories, the growth rate was a tepid 1.5%.

    i seriously doubt that farmers were filling their silos during January, February & March…so what is the explanation?

    the usual prize to whoever gets it right///

  • coberly says:
    April 27, 2013 at 1:05 pm

    Sammy

    I think you are right. But more than that, there is a good chance the thousands who die during the trials actually did die of something else.

    In any case the argument is not proven.

    On the other hand, it is hard to blame the drones on another country or misuse of statistics.

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