THE TIMES OF INDIA, BANGALORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2011
NO DRUG TRIALS on patients, rules state
Aims To Break Doctor-Pharma Firm Nexus, Protect People
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bangalore: Patients in Karnataka are no longer guinea pigs for pharma companies. The state government on Tuesday banned clinical drug trials or research in all government and private medical colleges and hospitals. Ongoing clinical drug trials and research projects using patients as subjects have been temporarily suspended from Wednesday. The government took this decision to curb the connivance of doctors and pharmaceutical companies, in the interest of innocent patients. Announcing this decision, medical education minister S A Ramdas said: “Our state does not have any laws or guidelines to regulate these experiments. Doctors are being lured by pharmaceutical companies with various inducements. In one instance, a company sponsored the foreign trip of a doctor six times in six months. This is a dangerous trend. The ban is essential to protect patients.’’
The government decided to appoint a two-member expert committee to study and frame guidelines to regulate and reorganize clinical drug trials and research projects in all government and private medical colleges and hospitals. The committee will submit the report in three months.
DRUG OUTLETS FOR THE AGED .......
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NO DRUG TRIALS on patients, rules state
Aims To Break Doctor-Pharma Firm Nexus, Protect People
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bangalore: Patients in Karnataka are no longer guinea pigs for pharma companies. The state government on Tuesday banned clinical drug trials or research in all government and private medical colleges and hospitals. Ongoing clinical drug trials and research projects using patients as subjects have been temporarily suspended from Wednesday. The government took this decision to curb the connivance of doctors and pharmaceutical companies, in the interest of innocent patients. Announcing this decision, medical education minister S A Ramdas said: “Our state does not have any laws or guidelines to regulate these experiments. Doctors are being lured by pharmaceutical companies with various inducements. In one instance, a company sponsored the foreign trip of a doctor six times in six months. This is a dangerous trend. The ban is essential to protect patients.’’
The government decided to appoint a two-member expert committee to study and frame guidelines to regulate and reorganize clinical drug trials and research projects in all government and private medical colleges and hospitals. The committee will submit the report in three months.
DRUG OUTLETS FOR THE AGED .......
http://ayurvedaconsultants.com/caseshow.aspx?ivalue=engoogle3274
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