Drug Trials in India

Here is a story that is just coming out today, on how drug testers are turning to the poor areas of India to do their drug testing, so they can workaround all of the rules we use in the U.S. to protect people during human drug testing.

'People keep falling sick': How Poor Indians are Recruited for Clinical Drug Trials

"Drug trial outsourcing to foreign countries is rapidly becoming an attractive alternative for U.S. pharmaceutical companies looking to save millions of dollars, avoid regulatory scrutiny and tap into a seemingly endless supply of drug study participants.

But a year-long Dateline investigation into one of the preferred destinations for overseas drug trials, India, raises questions about lax regulatory oversight in these studies, the integrity of some of the companies contracted to run them and the reliability of the data they produce. "

Read more here.