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Re:A big, successful trial of probiotics by culiuniversal on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:57PM (#15041835)
They initially planned to include 8000 babies, but stopped early. With only a week of treatment they already found a significant decrease in sepsis rates. They stopped because they thought it'd be highly unethical to deprive the other babies of a life-saving treatment. This is a heartwarming example of when humanity and science conflict, but I'm glad humanity won
Re:A big, successful trial of probiotics by dflock on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:02AM (#15043716)
That's standard procedure for clinical trials.