Medicine’s Not-So-Silent Killer reveals the downside of experimental drugs. There are 40-thousand clinical trials going on in the United States right now. 20-million Americans are recruited into clinical trials annually by universities, medical centers and drug companies.
Some have cancer or other illnesses that are threatening their lives. But experts say that taking part of a clinical trial should not be thought of us a last chance or miracle cure. In fact, that kind of thinking could end up costing you your life. We’ll talk to people about the downside of clinical trials and go behind-the-scenes of a clinical trail using perfectly healthy people to test drugs. It’s a big business…that can earn people thousands of thousands of dollars.
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