Scientists conducting clinical trials of new drugs, constantly forget that they still work with patients who need medical help. This conclusion was reached by specialists from the Boston Institute of Oncology (USA).

After analyzing the programs and results of 26 large-scale clinical trials, the experts concluded that only 14 of them were constructed in such a way that patients really benefited from experimental treatment, according to the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net In other cases, the "testers" treated patients as "research objects", treating them not as sick people who still need to be treated (even by experimental methods).

"Of course, the main task of the researcher is to prove or disprove the assumption about the effectiveness of the method he is studying," said Dr. Stephen Joffe, the head of this study in an interview with "BBC". - Theoretically, a scientist must treat one person and do not treat another at all - this is the only way to get really reliable results. But you should always remember that a doctor has no right to refuse a patient to provide medical assistance ... "medicus. En.

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