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Monday, May 13, 2013

HEALTH NEWS -


Without their consent and with the collaboration of the Communist East German government.  An investigation has been launched. 
 
The former Communist regime in East Germany and Western pharmaceutical companies colluded to test drugs on East German citizens without informing them of the dangerous side effects.  There were several fatalities as a result.  The East German government allegedly got paid up to 800,000 West German marks - about 400,000 euros ($520,000) - for each study.

Read more here: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20130512-49665.html

Other articles:

German authorities have begun probes against former West German drug companies that allegedly used unknowing East German patients for testing.
http://www.dw.de/pharma-sector-facing-probes-over-former-east-german-tests/a-16810257

Patients Misused as Guinea Pigs in East Germany - Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany sold patients as unwitting guinea pigs in drug trials conducted on behalf of Western pharmaceutical companies, according to a TV documentary .
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/east-german-patients-secretly-used-as-guinea-pigs-in-drug-trials-a-870984.html

RELATEDWestern pharmaceutical companies routinely test new drugs in the Third World
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/08/sending-us-drug-research-overseas.html

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