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HUMAN GUINEA PIGS AND RESEARCHERS

These are people who volunteer for research study medications and get paid to allow themselves to be tested and have experiments performed on them. The problem is that they may not realize all research may not always get closely scrutinized by government regulators or those medical practitioners in charge of the safety of the test subjects or people being used in the experiments.

Human guinea pigs may not even clearly understand or be aware ofall of the risks involved with too many of the scientific research projects they volunteer for!

In the researchers' quest for getting results, possibly ANY results just to satisfy pharmaceutical company contracts, research physicians have sometimes been accused of ignoring patient safety!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: ABC-TV 20/20 6/1/98 and FT. LAUDERDALE SUN SENTINEL NEWSPAPER 8/28/97

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