These appear to be the first reported deaths of unconsenting experimental subjects since the 1996 changes in policy. The policy changes bypassed the Nuremberg Code and allowed human experimentation without consent of the subjects. ---------------------------------------------------- Firm hid info from experiment subjects http://www.usatoday.com/news/ndssun03.htm CHICAGO - A company conducted an ill-fated blood substitute trial without the informed consent of patients in the study - some of whom died, federal officials say. Baxter International was able to test the substitute known as HemAssist without consent because of a 1996 change in federal Food and Drug Administration regulations. The changes broke a 50-year standard to get consent for nearly all experiments on humans. They were designed to help research in emergency medicine that could not happen if doctors took the time to get consent. But the problems with the HemAssist trial are prompting some medical ethicists to question the rule change. ''People get involved in something to their detriment without any knowledge of it,'' George Annas, a professor of health law at the Boston University School of Public Health, told the Chicago Tribune. ''We use people. What's the justification for that?'' No other company has conducted a no-consent experiment under the rule, FDA officials said. [...] -- Allen L. Barker http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb ************************************************************** MINDCONTROL-L Mind Control and Psyops Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: "unsubscribe MINDCONTROL-L" or "subscribe MINDCONTROL-L". Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, list moderator
