Medical experiments, often called “clinical trials,” are obviously extremely important for the human race. Here, we shall briefly talk, in layman’s language, about some important aspects of the same which are of great public interest.
Side Effect of Drugs
The side effects of allopathic drugs are notorious; death is often included in the same. For degenerative diseases (as opposed to infectious diseases, as in epidemics) it is not clear to the author whether any serious effort is being made by the pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs which actually cure diseases; the trend seems to be at best to maintain people on drugs for a long time (even for the whole life). Mostly, people live under varying forms of painkiller-surgery regimes.
However, in many institutions (for example, departments doing research on nutrition) there are people who are genuinely interested in finding cures, though often they do not possess the resources they need. Many things, considered true by the public, are...
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Srivastava, J.N. (2011). Clinical Trials: Some Aspects of Public Interest. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_175
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