[e-drug] Clinical trials in India by MNCs: The Dark Side

E-DRUG: Clinical trials in India by MNCs: The Dark Side
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The Indian TV channel CNN-IBN recently telecast a very informative investigative programme on using thousands of poor, illitrate, tribal girls (inmates of hostels) in India for testing the safety and efficacy of HPV vaccine Gardisal. It can be seen on the following link. It has three parts running into about 24 minutes. Please make sure to click the icon after the first part is over:

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/114895/cervical-cancer-trial-and-error.html

Dr. Pankaj Talwar, MD. AMC
Consultant physician.
"Dr. Pankaj Talwar" <drptalwar@yahoo.co.uk>