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  Drug Trials Gone Horribly Wrong...

  by Sad emo in

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  i just thought these poor guys deserve our thoughts.

  i hope they recover.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4808836.stm

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  Sad emo

  I just thought these poor guys deserve our thoughts. I hope they recover. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4808836.stm Two drug trial men critically ill

  The six are being treated at Northwick Park hospital Two men remain critically ill and four others are in a serious condition after suffering a violent reaction while taking part in a clinical drugs trial. All are still in intensive care in Northwick Park Hospital, north-west London, after falling ill on Monday. Myfanwy Marshall told BBC News her boyfriend's body was badly swollen and she had been told he could die. Relatives are said to be unhappy with the information given from the firm behind the anti-inflammatory drug. The families had been given "mixed messages" during two meetings with pharmaceutical company TeGenero AG, which manufactures the drug and Parexel, which ran the trial, it was claimed. Lawyer Ann Alexander, representing one of the critically ill men, told the BBC the companies had been asked whether any of the animals used to test the drug had died. "I understand that yesterday, they were told a dog had died during the testing. Today that was denied," she said. But TeGenero has described the reactions as "shocking developments" and said the new medicine showed no signs of problems in earlier tests. This is not leukaemia, this is not pneumonia, this is not something they know how to deal with Myfanwy Marshall 'He needs a miracle' Ms Alexander added: "These are ordinary health people who have been involved in a clinical trial and unfortunately everything seems to have gone wrong. "I think the most scary thing for the families..is that they don't know what the outcome is going to be". As there was no antidote and doctors did not know what had happened, they were having to treat the patients on a "symptomatic basis", she added. It was the first time the drug TBN1412, designed to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and leukaemia, had been tested on humans. Within hours of taking it on Monday, the six young volunteers had to be admitted to intensive care. Ms Marshall, 35, whose boyfriend is critically ill, said the normally healthy 28-year-old's face was so puffed, he "looks like the Elephant Man". She said he was completely lifeless, unable even to move an eyelid. "They just keep saying he's very, very sick and we are doing all we can," she added. The hospital says it is continuing to treat the men's "inflammatory disorder" and would do all it could to support the families. TeGenero's chief scientific officer Thomas Hanke said the company's first concern was making sure the patients got the best treatment possible and to support the familes. He added: "They were shocked, devastated. We deeply understand that they are. We are devastated at these shocking developments which we were not anticipating." An investigation by inspectors from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) at the private research unit on the hospital's grounds has begun. American company Parexel, which runs the unit, said it followed recommended guidelines in its trial. Professor Kent Woods, from the MHRA, said they would be looking at whether the reaction was caused by a manufacturing problem, contamination, a dosing error or whether it was some "completely unanticipated side effect of the drug in humans". The Medical Research Council said that while it was "an unfortunate and extremely rare event", such clinical trials were essential for the development of new and better treatments.
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  Last straw?

  by happyout in

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  so, my marriage has been in trouble for some time.

  my husband and i have totally different goals, and ideas of "partnership".

  the last few months have been even more difficult than usual, he has been out of work, and not picking up any extra load around the house.

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  Sad emo

  So sorry this is happening to you, you're in my thoughts

  I can't offer much help or advice other than maybe try to get the credit card problems sorted out before they get any worse. Are there debt counseling services there who can negotiate smaller payments with your creditors? It's apparently not a good idea to consolidate debt as this can end up costing you more money in the long run. (sorry the only possible ideas i do have are from a UK perspective too, I do hope there's something similar where you are)

  ((((Happyout & son))))
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  WT only complete Finnish bible?

  by Dogpatch in

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  in the awake!

  of jan. 2006, page 23 it apparently (i don't have the mag) states that the watchtower's new world translation is the only complete finnish bible.

  could this possibly be true that after all these years there are no others in finnish?

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  http://nofrontiers.org/shop/productdetails.php?SubCatID=246

  Scriptures
  		Bible - Finnish Product code: FINN070 Translation: C. Binding: HB. Size: 186 x 126mm
  	Quantity: 14 item(s) available
  	Price £10.99 Approx USD/Euro price: $19.23/€15.72

  Here's a complete one. No Frontiers is the UK specialist in foreign language Bibles even 'obscure' tribal ones.
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  Favourite Memories!

  by BlessedStar in

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  2. friends

  so you must have at least a favourite memory of your life, care to share it with us?.

  one of my favourite memories is....... the first time when i went to the beach.

  i was a kid then.

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  Ha! BS I found one!!!!

  Every morning when I wake up and hear the birds singing and the sun is shining and it feels good to be alive

  HOWZAT!
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  Fluff Question.....Hilarious!

  by whyamihere in

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  my friend danielle, and i were having dinner last weekend.

  suddenly, a question popped up she asked me.

  now it was a question that i actually had to give some thought to.

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  Sad emo

  Hmmm

  No problem deciding that one for me. My first day in my first job after leaving school I got asked out on a blind date - silly, naive me took up the offer. The guy was acting like we'd been seeing each other for years - he made me seriously uncomfortable!

  Then when I got to work the next day, everyone was laughing at me when I related my awful experience - it turned out that he tried dating all the new starters and he had a reputation as a bit of a letch, those horrid people just didn't tell me.

  To top it all off, he wouldn't stop phoning me for another date for weeks after either.

  I just feel every time I think about it now!
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  WATCHTOWER and AWAKE magazines

  by Honesty in

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  watchtower and awake!

  magazines:.

  spiritual food or spiritual poison?

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  Some food some poison - but I guess no matter how small an amount of poison, that affects the whole of the food.

  I've just tried out New York44M's strategy on the current WT articles - and it does work - the next couple of weeks are about the 'little flock' and the 'great crowd' - before trying this, I thought it was just going to be a history lesson!
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  Toys and Religions

  by pmouse in

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  toys and religions .

  capitalism he who dies with the most toys, wins.

  hari krishna he who plays with the most toys wins.

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  ROTFL!!

  Those are hilarious!
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  uncertainty principle

  by ballistic in

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  6. the brain is a "dissipative structure" and self-organizes around a least-action principle of minimizing a certain uncertainty relation.. .

  this quote is actually talking about the "uncertainty principle" - part of quantum physics... but it made me think of something else,.

  do you find as you get older, you become less obsessed with working out all possible outcomes of a situation and trust your senses, or even yourself to determine a course of action.

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  I'm working on it, I'm not really used to 'thinking to the max' though.

  It's hard to work out whether this is a positive or negative reply to your question - I guess that because I've just been 'surviving' most of my life, I've nearly always gone on instinct - but this hasn't always resulted in the best way of dealing with situations. Now, I question more - so does that mean that I am potentially going against my instincts (contrary to the theory) or am I in the process of developing and honing them?

  .....Now how's everyone going to react to this answer. Should I have put a different answer. But would they react better or worse to an alternative one???????.......
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  Sabotage?

  by Chia in

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  2. experiences

  i wasn't quite sure where to put this post.. i believe i'm being sabotaged at work--either that or i am going crazy.

  i left for lunch about 2 hours ago.

  there was a pile of work on my desk.

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  Sad emo

  Do you think the other person took your work pile and can you be certain? (asking because i don't know how many others are there)

  Does your boss believe her when she's 'complaining' about you or is the boss reasonably fair? If she has talked about you often enough, should the boss be asking for your input on the matter by now - unless possibly they think she's talking a load of bull!

  Maybe she's not used to people being nice to her so wonders what you're up to? (i've been there, done that *sigh*) in which case, possibly you need to cool off on the niceness - but don't turn into a total bitch lol!!!

  If she's worked there longer than you then you may have a point about her feeling threatened by the cross training. If you do think she's sabotaging your work, you need to leave her with as few opportunities as possible to do that eg file your 'to do' pile away in a drawer before you go for a break so it would really be obvious that something is going on.

  Hope this gives you a few ideas.
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  I"m BACK!!! from despair to victory

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. friends

  warning: the following contains a lot of techno-babble so if you hate it just know i got it working again .

  ok first the computer crashed big time .

  then i crashed trying to get it up and working again.

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  Sad emo

  OUCH! that's an expensive low price.

  If a generous whizz doesn't come along, maybe you could hold on to the drive until an affordable new low price comes around. At least you'll get the pics back even though the other work files may no longer be needed by then.