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FDA to Consider Another Artificial Blood Experiment Without Subjects' Consent

Joseph Rhee reports on ABC News' "The Blotter":

With medical ethicists raising alarms, the Food and Drug Administration meets behind closed doors this week for secret deliberations on whether to allow an artificial blood substitute, Hemopure, to be tested in trauma patients without their knowledge or consent.

The proposed medical experiment would be similar to one already underway in 27 American cities involving a product called Polyheme, being conducted by Northfield Labs.

posted by Fergie @ 7/11/2006 11:03:00 AM