Of the moment …..

[RogerS]

..as I’ve reached the end as a healthy volunteer participant for a clinical trial of a vaccine for Norovirus, it’s freed me up for other trials. So I’ve signed up to trial a vaccine to prevent any bird flu pandemic. Think this is my fifth clinical trial.

 

[Spectric]

I suppose you are helping guinea pigs and other animals from being used in laboratories and someone has to do it but why not people serving life in prison for murder or othen crimes, make them payback to society and maybe save a few lives.

 

[Sheffield Tony]

Medical experiments on prisoners sounds like the first step on the slippery slope to some of the atrocities committed in war time. Very bad for PR, at least.

 

[Mike G]

I suppose you are helping guinea pigs and other animals from being used in laboratories......

No. Human trials only happen after trials in vitro and in lab animals.

 

[RogerS]

I suppose you are helping guinea pigs and other animals from being used in laboratories and someone has to do it but why not people serving life in prison for murder or othen crimes, make them payback to society and maybe save a few lives.

Which clearly shows your very limited understanding of clinical trials.

 

[Windows]

Do the people running the drug trial require a period in which you have no trials before you can start the next one? Or is it just a matter of letting them know which trials you were on?

 

[RogerS]

Do the people running the drug trial require a period in which you have no trials before you can start the next one? Or is it just a matter of letting them know which trials you were on?

Both

 

[fuse]

I suppose you are helping guinea pigs and other animals from being used in laboratories and someone has to do it but why not people serving life in prison for murder or othen crimes, make them payback to society and maybe save a few lives.

Just hope they've not been wrongly convicted .......

 

[RogerS]

Ah, I was rejected for the trial as it wasn't 90 days since the end of the last one. Bit silly really as the trial vaccine or placebo was two years ago. The lead nurse of the trial just finished thought it was a bit weird of them as well but they make the rules.

As it happens, there's a much better trial that they're doing...a vaccine for C Diff which, let's face it, I have a darn sight more chance of catching than bird flu. Of course I might get the placebo.

 

[Mike G]

I'm curious, Roger, about the protocols and precautions around the tests these days. I recall a few years ago when 4 or 5 volunteers had life-changing reactions to whatever they were trialling, and I assume that there are more precautions these days.