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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2092527,00.html

Very disturbing article about a drug test gone horribly horribly wrong. May be more than you can stand to read. Should be read anyway.

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Here's a response from a US bioethicist which mentions that US laws are in theory a little tighter. It also mentions a similar case in Canada.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11927387/

I almost signed up for a drug trial myself - not this sort of thing, the "healthy people for cash" ones, but an experimental treatment for my illness. Several thousand dollars for the drugs alone, let alone the travel and other costs, and the scariness of the drug, deterred me. But desperately sick people will do all kinds of silly things for a possible cure.

Why this particular incident didn't stop after the first set of human trials gone wrong is beyond me.