[india-drug] Drug Trials in India

[Cerissa Tanner <cerissann@yahoo.com>]

Drug Trials in India
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Dear I drug participants,

I am a journalist in the United States.  I am writing a story about 
American drug companies that conduct clinical trials in India.  I would

appreciate your help answering these questions:

 

What challenges do clinical researchers face in India?

 

Are American drug companies doing research in India that they could not

do in the United States?

 

How well protected are research subjects?  Are research regulations 
observed and enforced?

 

How are clinical trials changing the delivery of health care in India?

 

How does the culture of medicine in India (respect for doctors, patient

autonomy, the definition of consent, etc.) compare to the United 
States?

 

I greatly appreciate your help and insights into these questions.  If 
you can think of any of the hot issues in drug development in India, 
please let me know.

 

I'm going to India in May and want to profile research subjects who use

drug trials as a means to get health care.

 

Thank you so much,

 

Cerissa Tanner

 

Graduate School of Journalism

UC Berkeley

Berkeley, California

USA

cerissann@yahoo.com

510 384 9861  



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