Experimental Treatments Demand Patient Consent ; Though Such Products Can Save Lives, They're Not Proven Methods.
Portland Press Herald › February 23, 2004
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That a company can test its medical products on patients without their consent - no matter how well-intended the effort - is troubling.
Northfield Laboratories, which makes a modified hemoglobin called PolyHeme, will have paramedics test the blood substitute on trauma patients at 20 sites around the nation - but patients don't have to agree.See the full content of this document
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Experimental Treatments Demand Patient Consent ; Though Such Products Can Save Lives, They're Not Proven Methods.
Normally, treatments aren't approved for widespread use until they'r...
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