Medical Corruption: Secret Genetic Trials Put Six in Grave Risk.

[Jagannath Chatterjee]

Dear Friends,

 

I have been off and on warning about secret genetic drug trials going on around the globe. Now this GM Watch release confirms that the recent drug trial fiasco involved a genetically engineered drug. Already the medical scientists are trying to explain everything away and crying that this incident should not affect further research. Such cover ups should not be allowed. What of "informed assent"? Were the subjects aware that they were being administered GE drugs?

 

In India we have opened the floodgates by allowing drug MNCs to conduct trials.This is unpardonable. The poor and illiterate and also the educated public rarely question what the doctor prescribes. Drug reactions are never probed. This lacunae has been pointed out by an NRI doctor who has lost his wife to the carelessness of Indian doctors. He has now sued the doctors and the concerned hospital for a whopping sum of Rs. 77.80 Crores. His interview on NDTV was immensely shocking as it revealed the total lack of control that exists here.

 

Regards,

Jagannath. 

 

Subject: GMW: GM medicine from human/mouse hybrid gene
From: "GM WATCH" <info@...>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:46:24 GMT

GM WATCH daily
http://www.gmwatch.org
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"It is possible that the severe symptoms the six men are experiencing
are unanticipated side effects of the genetic engineering process, and
this needs to be fully explored,"
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GE medicine derived from human/mouse hybrid gene
Press release, 22 March 2006

Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for assurances that no drug trials
involving GE medicines are being carried out in New Zealand without
participants being informed that the drug is genetically engineered.

Her call follows confirmation that the medicine (TGN1412) that has left
six men in London seriously ill, including a New Zealander, was
genetically engineered and is derived from a human/mouse hybrid gene.

Professor Peter Wills of Auckland University has confirmed this after
searching the original patents that were granted for this medicine.

Ms Kedgley says trials involving genetically engineered medicines are
inherently more risky than other drug trials because of the possibility
that unintended side effects could occur.

"It is possible that the severe symptoms the six men are experiencing
are unanticipated side effects of the genetic engineering process, and
this needs to be fully explored," she says.

"In the meantime it is essential that all participants in drug trials
are informed whenever genetically engineered medicines are involved, so
that volunteers are aware of the increased risk.  I am seeking
government assurance that this is the case."

Ms Kedgley says it is also important that all medicines which are
derived from a genetically engineered process are labelled as such.

"Consumers have a right to know when medicines they are taking are
derived from GE, just as they are entitled to know whether food
contains GE
ingredients in it or not."

Sue Kedgley MP
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Room 8.06 Bowen House
Parliament Buildings, Wellington
Ph: 04-470-6717 Fax: 04-472-6003
Email: sue.kedgley@...


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