echoz Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Has anyone ever participated in Clinical Trials? It's something I have considered a few times in the past 2 years, and am looking for some insight from people rather than what I'm finding online, unbiased opinions I suppose. Has anyone ever heard of the following company? http://www.richmondpharmacology.com/ Any info anyone has would be greatly appreciated. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
housebeautician Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Don't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveD Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 do it you could turn green like the hulk ..............................................awesome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Clinical trials are important and valuable, and I understand the money can be attractive. However, they are not without risks. In fact, one did go hideously wrong several years ago and very painfully ruined the lives of six young people - I believe it killed one of them. i personally do not think the risk versus reward ratio is acceptable to me, but each to their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhouse Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Richmond are one if the UK's biggest trials companies and specialise in early stage trials - ie probably the first time the drug has been used on people. The amount of supervision means that the guinea pigs are monitored very closely and the risk is low. The pay isn't great. So 2 questions: How much risk are you prepared to take? Do you like the idea of being a guinea pig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenh Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I thought this was about trials on a Westie!! You know, trying different fuel under controlled conditions, that sort of thing. Quite disappointed when I got beyond the headline and read the thread!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFKARM Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Personally, its not for me. Too much risk for too little reward. I did toy with the idea of donating some bodily fluids while at uni, but changed my mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Only because she said no. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain m Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Our local radio station has been advertising for clinical trial applicants, couple of grand and all rail fares paid. I can see the attraction short term, but god knows what medical problems could occur in later life. If you feel the need to give, be a blood donor or join a sperm bank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFKARM Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Fyi re sperm banks - Im sure they changed the law so kids born by donor now have the right no find their biological father Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterg Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Clinical Trial Studies are vital in assessing the risk/benefit ratio for new compounds as the evidence they provide is what is put forward to agencies such as NICE and the US FDA who licence the drugs for use in humans showing that patients will benefit from the new treatment. If these trials weren't conducted then new medications wouldn't be able to be marketed... out of maybe 10,000 new molecules discovered in the labs, around 100 go to first stage trials and of those only about 5 ever get to be trialled on humans and of those just 1 or 2 ever get to be licenced for use to the public, the research cost runs into multiple billions of $$ in the hope of creating 1 new effective (and safe) treatment. A lot of people on CT studies already have the disease that we are trying to treat/cure but early stage human studies are done on healthy people first to check that they won't cause serious problems as concommitant treatments on poorly patients can interact with the new compound and skew the results. ...can you tell I work for a drug company at the end of the day you have to weigh the possible risk to your own health against the benefit of having some money in your pocket and I can't and wouldn't try to answer that for you 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I'm not sure if the following is true but I read it somewhere. President Nixon gave the US drug companies huge sums of money to find cures for cancer. That money still gets voted every year. However no major step forward has been made as, in the USA, the doctors get sued (by the relatives) if they trial new drugs on cancer victims who then die. Even though they were going to die anyway! So, no new drugs are trialed in the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I used to work with a guy that did CT a couple of times, he's now got 2 heads and 3 holes. Mind you he always was a bit of an now he's even more of one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dombanks Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 clinical trials are fine if you get the placebo and it also depends on what the trial is on. Ive know a few who've done it and they were ok. Trust me the paper work to get even the smallest of human trials is immense and very complicated so it wouldnt be allowed if it were too risky. however its on your own head. Ive participated in some sample trials where ive given swabs etc and tbf i give blood for lab use on a pretty regular basis as we are always needing it for one thing or another. The one i didnt go in for sounded pretty simple. you were infected in the nose with a pneumococcus and gave a few swabs/blood samples for £50 sounds easy but then there was an option to get £300 if you agreed to a bronchoscopy .... so why ddi they want to do that? the reason for it was there wasa chance of "limited" lung damage. hmmm not so good. the point of this is often it sounds easy money, often it is but then there is always a chance and more or less always something that can go wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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