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Re:Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, sa... by dacodanelson on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:13AM (#24047499)
Must be wonderful having the entire "third world" for researchers to test out their pet hypotheses, or at least to trial medications that might not otherwise be worth paying to have put through FDA scrutiny until you've dosed several thousands of innocent children. And who says colonialism is dead?
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Re:Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, sa... by doukdouk on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:34AM (#24049288)
My understanding is that this is not a clinical trial at all - the question is not whether the treatment works for health purposes, but whether this medicine, that was already tested for its medical effects, also has long lasting economic impact. Hence the FDA is completely irrelevant here.
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Re:Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, sa... by MperorM on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:38AM (#24047914)
What exactly do you think is the alternative to giving deworming treatments?
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