Artificial Blood Experiment - without consent

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Artificial Blood Experiment/Without Informed Consent

 

 

ARTIFICIAL BLOOD EXPERIMENT: IS YOUR CITY PARTICIPATING?

By ASA R. ESLOCKER and ASTRID HILL

ABC News

July 7, 2006

 

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=2166058

 

Northfield Lab's experimental blood substitute Polyheme is currently in

randomized phase III clinical trials recruiting patients without informed

consent all over the country. At one point, it was being tested in as many

as 27 cities; it is still being tested in 23 hospitals in 20 cities.

 

With the FDA's approval, Northfield Lab has recruited hospitals to

participate in the trial study with exemption from informed consent

requirements on study participants. Although Northfield Lab claims that

extensive information on the study has been made public, a vast majority of

the general public has never heard of the trial.

 

Below is a list of the cities and hospitals that are currently participating

in the Polyheme trials. Check the list to see if you live an area where you

could become a trial participant without your informed consent.

 

To opt out of the study, contact Northfield Labs

<http://www.northfieldlabs.com/contact.html> or a participating hospital and

request a blue bracelet. If worn, you will be exempt from the trial.

 

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California

 

UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting

Scripps Mercy, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting

 

Colorado

Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colo.

 

Delaware

Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del.

 

Georgia

Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, Ga.

 

Illinois

Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill.

 

Indiana

Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind.

Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.

 

Kansas

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

 

Kentucky

University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Ky.

 

Michigan

Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

 

Minnesota

The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

 

New York

Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y.; Suspended

 

North Carolina

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

 

Ohio

MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Suspended

University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

 

Pennsylvania

Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Penn.; No longer recruiting

St. Luke's Regional Resource Trauma Center, Bethlehem, Penn.

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Penn.

 

Tennessee

University of Tennessee-Memphis, Memphis, Tenn.

Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, Tenn.; Suspended

 

Texas

Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting

Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting

University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas

Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam, Houston, Texas

 

Utah

University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Virginia

Sentara Norfolk Hospital, Norfolk, Va.; No longer recruiting

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Va.

Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va.; Suspended

 

West Virginia

West Virginia University/Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, Morgantown, West

Va.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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