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>Outsourcing clinical trials to other countries (usually India or SE Asia) is one of the biggest advances in drug development in the past 20 years. Not really
by redthrowaway 15y ago
>Outsourcing clinical trials to other countries (usually India or SE Asia) is one of the biggest advances in drug development in the past 20 years.
Not really what I'd call an advancement. It's being done because it's cheaper, the health and safety regulations are practically non-existent, and if something goes wrong then the subjects have very little recourse.
- ars 15y agoThat's the cynical reason. The non cynical reason is that subjects in the US often take or have taken various other drugs. Depending on what they are checking those drugs may affect the results.
- rdl 15y agoMaking it cheaper (and thus allowing more drugs to be tested, or to allow inventors to raise less money and thus keep more equity ownership, thus being better able to develop future drugs) isn't really cynical either, IMO. I want pharma companies to make huge profits. I just want them to create vastly more surplus value for society in the process, vs. live via regulatory capture. If I could pay Novartis $10k/yr to be totally healthy and do fat lines of coke/mdma/mushrooms every day with no exercise, and have a 200 IQ as a side effect, I'd be quite happy.
- redthrowaway 15y agoI really hope you aren't railing MDMA and shrooms...
- asdkl234890 15y agoI want pharma companies to make huge profits. I want new drugs to be developed faster and cheaper. This has very little to do with the profit of huge companies.