India’s drug trials fuel consent controversy

KHANDWA, INDIA — Two months after he lost his wife to Alzheimer's disease, 80-year-old Sharad Geete made a shocking discovery. The free drugs his wife, Sheela, had been receiving for two years before she died were part of a clinical trial.

"The doctor told us that the medicines will be given free and that they were going to be launched soon by a foreign company. Not once did he say it was an experiment or a trial. If I knew, would I have taken the risk?" asked Geete, sitting in his home in Khandwa, a small town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Peter Wallsten 02 Jan, 2012
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