IF LAURA-JANE Filotrani (Drug Trialists Were Aware Of Risks, News Shopper, April 12) thinks by accepting a fee, the six young drug trial volunteers were "asking for" gangrenous hands and feet and a possible lifetime of damaged immunity from an underinsured company which had never made a drug before, she is talking out of a different part of her anatomy than her lip.
The way in which this drugs trial was carried out seems highly questionable, as is the degree to which the seriousness of possible side effects was explained.
Trial volunteers are the last people who should be held responsible for this shambles.
DEIRDRE MASON
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