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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=fromkodur@gmail.com
href="mailto:fromkodur@gmail.com">Abraham Thomas</A> </DIV>
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<DIV class=body>Thousands of poor and illiterate patients are being recruited
onto clinical trials in India to test new drugs for the West. </DIV>
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<LI>Visit <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><A
href="http://www.phmovement.org/en/news">http://www.phmovement.org/en/news</A></SPAN><BR></LI></UL><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN>India's
outsourced call centres are well known, but not its outsourced
patients.</SPAN><BR>By 2010, some estimate there will be two million patients in
India on clinical trials. An entire industry has sprung up, specialising in
recruiting patients and managing experiments. And a BBC investigation into the
conduct of these trials has found that some patients are unaware they are being
experimented on at all. Most of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies
have a presence in India, but there is concern about how the country achieves
its exceptional recruitment rates and questions about fully-informed
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