cassava7
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
A chilling account by Robert Cockburn, an Australian journalist, of how he was harmed by unapproved experimental devices in an asthma trial at Sydney University’s Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. He sustained long-term respiratory and neurological injuries from one of the devices.
When he tried to obtain more information about the trial, he was met with dismissal and silence, but he pushed on for 2 years, making multiple FOI requests:
- an investigation during the trial by the Sydney Local Health District that led to an update of the participant information & consent forms was covered up;
- the Therapeutic Goods Administration (the Australian medical regulator) withheld information on the lack of approval of the devices used in the trial;
- participant data was also being shared unknowingly to them with Politecnico di Milano’s spin-off company Resmed Respiratory Technology of Milan (manufacturer of one of the two experimental devices), which planned to sell them for financial gain.
This case is now being investigated by the Australian Research Integrity Committee.
https://forbetterscience.com/2022/07/06/misinformed-and-damaged-victim-of-unethical-trial-hits-back/
When he tried to obtain more information about the trial, he was met with dismissal and silence, but he pushed on for 2 years, making multiple FOI requests:
- an investigation during the trial by the Sydney Local Health District that led to an update of the participant information & consent forms was covered up;
- the Therapeutic Goods Administration (the Australian medical regulator) withheld information on the lack of approval of the devices used in the trial;
- participant data was also being shared unknowingly to them with Politecnico di Milano’s spin-off company Resmed Respiratory Technology of Milan (manufacturer of one of the two experimental devices), which planned to sell them for financial gain.
This case is now being investigated by the Australian Research Integrity Committee.
https://forbetterscience.com/2022/07/06/misinformed-and-damaged-victim-of-unethical-trial-hits-back/
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