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Clinical trials affect everyones health whether you enroll in one or not.Journalist Alex O Meara is one of the more than twenty million Americansenrolled in a clinical trialthree times as many people as a decade ago.Indeed clinical trials have become a 24 billion industry that is reshapingevery aspect of healthcare development and delivery in the United States andaround the world. As OMeara chronicles twentiethcentury medical trialshave led to epic advances in health care from asthma inhalers and insulinpumps to heart valves and pacemakers. And yet although regulations safeguardagainst grossly unethical tests significant problems are still associated withhow clinical trials are carried out and reported. For example despite eightclinical trials for Vioxx before the FDA approved it in 1998 for use as apainkiller Merck took it off the market in 2004 too late for the eightyeightthousand Americans who suffered heart attacks while taking Vioxx and thethirtyeight thousand who died. Chasing Medical Miracles is the first bookto give readers a behindthescenes look at the complicated world of clinicaltrials revealing how a multibilliondollar industry of private companiesconducting them with little oversight has taken root and quietly become a majorpart of the American medical establishment. Whether you are participating in aclinical trial considering that option or interested in our medical systemAlex OMearas groundbreaking book is essential reading. «
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