Thread: Hospitals in Twenty Cities Take Part in Polyheme Trials

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July 7, 2006



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Artificial Blood Experiment: Is Your City Participating?

Hospitals in Twenty Cities Take Part in Polyheme Trials

By ASA R. ESLOCKER and ASTRID HILL

July 7, 2006 — Northfield Lab's experimental blood substitute Polyheme is currently in randomized phase III clinical trials recruiting patients without informed consent all over the country. At one point, it was being tested in as many as 27 cities; it is still being tested in 23 hospitals in 20 cities.

With the FDA's approval, Northfield Lab has recruited hospitals to participate in the trial study with exemption from informed consent requirements on study participants. Although Northfield Lab claims that extensive information on the study has been made public, a vast majority of the general public has never heard of the trial.

Below is a list of the cities and hospitals that are currently participating in the Polyheme trials. Check the list to see if you live an area where you could become a trial participant without your informed consent.

To opt out of the study, contact Northfield Labs (http://www.northfieldlabs.com/contact.html) or a participating hospital and request a blue bracelet. If worn, you will be exempt from the trial.California


UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting
Scripps Mercy, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting

Colorado
Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colo.

Delaware
Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del.

Georgia
Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, Ga.

Illinois
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill.

Indiana
Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind.
Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.

Kansas
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

Kentucky
University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Ky.

Michigan
Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Minnesota
The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

New York
Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y.; Suspended

North Carolina
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Ohio
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Suspended
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

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Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Penn.; No longer recruiting
St. Luke's Regional Resource Trauma Center, Bethlehem, Penn.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Penn.



Tennessee
University of Tennessee-Memphis, Memphis, Tenn.
Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, Tenn.; Suspended



Texas
Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting
Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam, Houston, Texas



Utah
University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah



Virginia
Sentara Norfolk Hospital, Norfolk, Va.; No longer recruiting
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Va.
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va.; Suspended

West Virginia
West Virginia University/Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, Morgantown, West Va.

(source: www.clinicaltrials.gov where it says "Verified by Northfield Laboratories June 2006) (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/N ... 48?order=1)

Folks, this is off topic but, in one sense it's about the law. According to the news story, the FDA approved this study, and if you're in a' severe accident and are bleeding badly' and ARE NOT WEARING THE BLUE BAND WHICH SAYS YOU WISH TO OPT OUT OF THE STUDY, you can be given this experimental product...without your knowledge OR consent.

I know nothing of this product.....but I've NEVER seen a study done with out consent. WHAT IS THE FDA THINKING? I'm not a lawyer...isn't it against the law? The folk they interviewed in one city, not only were NOT aware of the study, but also didn't know that they MUST wear the band.

Pat.............I wasn't wearing one in 1982.............
but what happened to my transfusion that has messed me up the rest of my life? You see Duke on the list too.

I never heard of such a thing!!! I think I'm gonna adopt my grandfathers view of hospitals......do everything you can to stay out coz that's where you go to die.

Pat.............I wasn't wearing one in 1982.............
but what happened to my transfusion that has messed me up the rest of my life? You see Duke on the list too.

That's unreal Ruth......hope you have a legal means of fighting back for being and un-knowing guinea pig in their experiments.

Well, in 1982 I don't think they experimented on very many people. I think they just had to give me what they had.
Probably my blood is genetic linked to being bad anyway. Hard to match that kind or something.
But yeah, I've been a guinnea pig on a lot of things, and still will be after I die........but that will be with my permission.

I do not want to be a guinea pig, thank you very much.

I do not see how this can be legal, not to mention it is highly unethical.

WHAT IS THE FDA THINKING?

Curious - You should know better than to ask this question. This is a government agency we are talking about.