Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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do like it even though people will opp sometimes not to take the medication.
And have you looked at any aspect of patients asking questions of their doctor and giving them questions to ask?
Professor Victor Montori is in the divisions of endocrinology and healthcare policy and research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
I'm Norman Swann, and this has been the Health Report.
I'll see you next time.
Hello, it's Norman Swan here with a health report.
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Welcome.
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In this program, a major issue that's barely mentioned in Australia.
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It's the fact that drug companies are carrying out more and more of their medications trials in developing and emerging nations.
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And these are drugs which will be used one day in Australia.
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And one of the leading countries doing this is India.
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It's a lot cheaper for the pharmaceutical industry and the quality of the research can be high.
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But a leading Indian ethicist claims that another reason is that it's much easier for drug companies to obtain ethics approval for a trial because, he says, Indian ethics committees are weak, poorly trained and tend to be rubber stamps.
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The results could be shortcuts, exploitation of participants and perhaps even questionable findings.
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Ethics committees have to approve a trial to protect the participants.
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Dr. Amar Jasani is the founder of the Center for Studies in Ethics and Rights in Mumbai, possibly the only institute in India devoted to the study of bioethics.
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Previously, this law had limited the trials permitted in India, and the Act's liberalisation freed things up and put India more on a par with what's allowed in countries like Australia.
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Raju Chako is a medical oncologist, a cancer specialist, at the Christian Medical College in Valore, southern India, one of India's best medical centres.
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Raju is heavily involved in clinical trials into cancer drugs, and there's one big reason why from his point of view.
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And when you say solid tumors, you're meaning really tumors that turn into lumps rather than, say, blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, that sort of thing.
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