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[Wallcrawler]

...mention the earlier trials of this product with the high incidence of heart attacks.

Artificial Blood Experiment: Is Your City Participating?

Hospitals in Twenty Cities Take Part in Polyheme Trials

snip<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....>snip

Artificial Blood Experiment: Is Your City Participating?

[TTHQ Staff]

Thank you for posting this, WC.
I wanted to post the rest of it as well...

I would like to point out that 1 of the Ohio hospitals listed is within 10 miles of our office, another is within 45 miles, and I have heard NOTHING about this in ANY media outlet. I am outraged.

Since when are citizens automatically opted-in to ANYTHING without prior consent?

I just don't get it...I can't send you a single email without your permission or my IP gets shut down and we lose business, but my local hospital can pump pseudo-blood into my veins without my consent or knowledge? WTF?

Yeah, but it's nice of them to let me know that if I contact the hospital, they can send me a blue bracelet that I'd have to wear 24-7 in order to NOT get pumped full of this experimental stuff, should I need a pint or 2 of blood.

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.northfiel...om/contact.html) or a participating hospital and request a blue bracelet. If worn, you will be exempt from the trial.

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

[Wallcrawler]

THANKS!!!!!!! for posting that list of hospitals. I just moved to Southern California, and doing business all over the US now... and being a bleeder I need to be aware of which hospitals are doing this craziness. - WC