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Re: Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Sun Aug 13 10:30:16 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: DepoProvera for vasomotory symptoms" Previous message: Gordon Goldman: "Lynn Montgomery" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials" Were it not for the involuntary residents of Ossining, NY, there would be no RhoGam today. Art At Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Dean Huffman . wrote: > >.. > >Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials > >Several government agencies and private companies tested pharmaceuticals on >inmates at Holmesburg prison in Philadelphia from 1951 to 1974. > >By IAN URBINA > >Published: August 13, 2006 > >PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7 — An influential federal panel of medical advisers has >recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the >testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but >stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse. > >Reports on Experiments Conducted on Prisoners at Holmesburg and Elsewhere >Chemical Warfare Study by the U.S. Army (March 1969) Dioxin Experiments for Dow >Chemical (Dec. 1964) Radioactive Isotope Experiments (March 1966) Project >MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (Aug. 1977) >Human Drug Testing by the CIA (Aug. 1977)Office for Human Research Protections >(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) >Multimedia > >The proposed change includes provisions intended to prevent problems that >plagued earlier programs. Nevertheless, it has dredged up a painful history of >medical mistreatment and incited debate among prison rights advocates and >researchers about whether prisoners can truly make uncoerced decisions, given >the environment they live in. > >Supporters of such programs cite the possibility of benefit to prison >populations, and the potential for contributing to the greater good. > >... > >NY Times > >http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/us/13inmates.html?ref=us -- art fougner, md "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: DepoProvera for vasomotory symptoms" Previous message: Gordon Goldman: "Lynn Montgomery" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials"

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