<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - The Body Hunters</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/bodyhunters?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><description>The Body Hunters</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Suit Accuses Pfizer of Rights Violations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16693-2001Aug29.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16693-2001Aug29.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pfizer Inc. was sued Wednesday on behalf of 30 Nigerian families who contend that the world's largest drugmaker violated international law during a 1996 meningitis epidemic by experimenting on children without their knowledge or consent.]]></description><author> Joe Stephens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits and Lives Hang in Balance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11939-2000Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11939-2000Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Post investigation into corporate drug tests around the world reveals a booming, poorly regulated system.]]></description><author> Joe Stephens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding the Watchdogs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11986-2000Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11986-2000Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A global boom in overseas drug experiments is changing the way new drugs are tested and approved.]]></description><author> Mary Pat Flaherty, Deborah Nelson and Joe Stephens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure of Consent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22893-2000Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22893-2000Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Drug companies often use coercion and trickery to recruit naive, impoverished or uneducated patients in far-flung countries for medical tests.]]></description><author> Sharon LaFraniere, Mary Pat Flaherty and Joe Stephens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvesting China's Blood]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26797-2000Dec19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26797-2000Dec19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The same standards that apply to medical testing in developed nations may not provide the same protections to more vulnerable populations.]]></description><author> John Pomfret and Deborah Nelson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Testing's El Dorado]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31027-2000Dec20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31027-2000Dec20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Western drug companies increasingly view Latin America as a major source of subjects for drug experiments.]]></description><author> Karen DeYoung and Deborah Nelson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their Last, Best Chance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37168-2000Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37168-2000Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Poor nations shoulder burdens of experiments while rich nations benefit. Last of six articles.]]></description><author> Mary Pat Flaherty and Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FDA Asked to Back Study Seen as Unethical in U.S.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42991-2001Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42991-2001Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania firm's proposal would leave hundreds of sick, premature infants in Latin America without proven lifesaving medications.]]></description><author> Mary Pat Flaherty  and Joe Stephens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[HHS Office to Monitor Overseas Research]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36329-2001Jan23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36329-2001Jan23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A new office in the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee U.S.-funded medical research on foreign patients and address the ethical problems caused by experimenting on Third World populations, a top official said]]></description><author> Deborah Nelson and Mary Pat Flaherty</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug Trial Approval Backdated, Doctors Say]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63515-2001Jan15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63515-2001Jan15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/bodyhunters</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Nigerian doctor who supervised a 1996 Pfizer Inc. drug experiment on desperately ill children said in an interview that his office created a backdated ethics approval document that the American pharmaceutical company later used to satisfy U.S. regulators and to justify its conduct of the human testing.]]></description><author> Joe Stephens</author></item></channel></rss>
