ot: Deadly Medicine - Prescription drugs kill 200,000 Americans a year -- will numbers grow with overseas trials?

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Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that

number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas‹on

sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese‹in places where

regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn¹t reach, and

³mistakes² can end up in pauper¹s graves? The authors investigate the

globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government¹s

failure to rein in a lethal profit machine.

By L. Barlett and B. Steele

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/deadly-medicine-201101