November 03, 2006
Now We’re Outsourcing Drug-testing As Well!
Now every time you pick up that phone to call a help line, you probably wonder if your call will be routed to India. If you say you didn’t think of that possibility, you are only kidding yourself. The fact is that the names India and China have become a byword for almost all kinds of work. Now if this latest bit of news is to be believed, even the drugs we take will not be spared of the India/ China effect. How?
There is a very strong likelihood that these drugs will have been tested on people who live outside the United States. This means they live in places like India, China or Russia. I really don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. But let’s face it. Human clinical trials are a necessary part of any drug’s development. Courierpostonline.com reports:
Big pharmaceutical companies are increasingly looking outside the country to find locations to conduct the human clinical trials that are crucial to the development of new drugs, according to Gannett News Service. Drug companies are finding it quicker, easier and cheaper to test subjects overseas rather than in this country, experts say.
Read more: Outsourcing extends to clinical trials
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