Secret Artificial Blood Experiments Being Carried out At Brooks AMC and UT HSC

[Nbadan]

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.

Polyheme© and The Newest Plastic Bracelet


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/NCT00076648?order...

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The FDA is allowing Northfield to test its blood substitute without the consent
of the trauma patients, who often are unconscious.
In lieu of patient consent, the 31 medical centers testing the product are required to carry out community-awareness campaigns about the trials.
Several hospitals have told community meetings that previous trials showed PolyHeme to be safe, failing to mention the heart attacks,in their printed materials."

[Clandestino]

i've heard about this fake blood for a while now.. also, many of our best innovations come from the military...

[boutons_]

Then test this shit on the military, where the military institution is favored over the individuals, exactly the opposite of how it's supposed to be in US civilian life.

FDA will do whatever the medical establishment pays it to do.

Fake blood maybe wonderful, but not until it's proven wonderful.

However, when it comes to approving generic medicines to save us $Bs, the FDA goes real slow, for no medical reason, to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical companies.

[exstatic]

They should just NOT be doing this shit without consent. Period.

[Clandestino]

if you queers ran the world we'd still be deciding if fire was good or not...

[sabar]

I understand the point of, you know, not letting the people know (placebo effect blah blah), but this is just plain dumb. Why not let people sign up as test subjects like usual? Fake blood may be good, but only until it's proven itself to be so.

[xrayzebra]

Then test this shit on the military, where the military institution is favored over the individuals, exactly the opposite of how it's supposed to be in US civilian life.

FDA will do whatever the medical establishment pays it to do.

Fake blood maybe wonderful, but not until it's proven wonderful.

However, when it comes to approving generic medicines to save us $Bs, the FDA goes real slow, for no medical reason, to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical companies.

I have a better idea, how bout we test it on you. That is unless you
really need it, then we will withhold it. Which every rings your bell. You
got to be one of most piteful examples of humanity that I have ever
heard of. If you ever have any real thought, other than hate, it must
have been an accident.