One in coma after clinical trial in France - BBC News - 0 views
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One in coma after clinical trial in France
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ealth Minister Marisol Touraine, who was heading for Rennes on Friday, pledged to "get to the bottom... of this tragic accident".
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The study was a Phase I clinical trial, in which healthy volunteers take the medication to evaluate the safety of its use, the ministry said.
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Phase I tests for safety. A small number of people, sometimes healthy, and sometimes with a medical condition, are given a tiny dose of the drug under careful supervision, not to test if the drug works, but in order to check for any side effects Phase II sees the drug given to people who have a medical condition to see if it does indeed help them Phase III trials are only for medicines or devices that have already passed the first two stages, and involve them being compared to existing treatments or a placebo. The trials often last a year or more, involving several thousand patients
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Clinical trials are the key to getting that data - and without volunteers to take part in the trials, there would be no new treatments for serious diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and arthritis.