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> Probably those who want the benefit of the medication badly enough. it doesn't make them good models anyway. not better than peaking up a random animal from
by peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> Probably those who want the benefit of the medication badly enough.
it doesn't make them good models anyway.
not better than peaking up a random animal from the zoo or a random. human from the population.
in fact access to experimental trials is not on a consent only basis, patients need to adhere to some parameter.
for example: my mother in law was rendered almost blind by a degenerative disease.
She volunteered for an experimental trial on a new treatment but she was too old and her condition too advanced to be a suitable candidate.
She was fully willing to be part of it, but consent alone wasn't enough.
- will5421 4y agoSometimes, people will be suitable candidates, and sometimes they won’t. In the cases they aren’t, we’d just have to accept that this will slow down the development of the medication.
- peoplefromibiza 4y agoand that's exactly how it works now. I'm not happy we have to rely on animals, believe me, but suitable patients are already hard to find, if we don't test drugs for at least a reasonable definition of safe, we risk to kill the research, not simply slowing it down. and that's much more probable for those diseases that are rare on humans, that are already underfunded and under researched.