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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People who are doomsayers in the West say, oh, well, this is the pharmaceutical industry.
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finding cheap, easy ways to do clinical trials where ethics committees are weak and can be bought, to be blunt.
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And the good side is that you get clinical trials done in India which are relevant to Indian populations.
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What's your analysis of the situation?
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Because a lot of it does depend on the ethics committee because they are the group who oversight a trial and guarantee the safety of the person participating.
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So what is the state of ethics committees in Indian institutions?
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in a situation, in a context where it's predicted that within the next 10 years, one in three of all clinical trials will be done in India?
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other issue is what happens to participants.
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Do they continue on the drug once the trial has finished?
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You're listening to the Health Report here on ABC Radio National, talking about major concerns about the ethics and monitoring of clinical trials in India, trials of drugs which will come onto the Australian market one day.
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The issue of trials comparing the drug to a placebo is a hot one among ethics committees in the West.
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You see, there's a legitimate ethical and scientific argument that it's invalid and unfair in many instances to subject people to placebo when there are accepted proven treatments available.
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What should be done is what's called a head-to-head study, where at the very least the participant receives the best available treatment compared to the new medication, Amarjasani.
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regardless of where they do the trial.
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So these are issues which are common to Britain, to Australia, to the United States.
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How do you train ethics committees?
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How do you maintain them?
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How do you resource them to monitor trials?
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It's hard enough for a country with 20-odd million people like Australia.
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