Preventing A Recurrence Of The Northwick Park Trial
Dec 19th 2008Drug InformationArthritis
Scientists investigating the 2006 Northwick Park drug-trial disaster that left six healthy volunteers hospitalised say they have developed new pre-clinical tests that could have stopped the trial from ever going ahead. But Dr Stephen Poole, speaking at the British Pharmacological Society’s Winter Meeting in Brighton, said that research is still “ongoing” to understand why the drug had such an adverse effect in the clinic but not in pre-clinical testing.
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