Western Pharmaceutical Trials: Patients Misused as Guinea Pigs in East Germany

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Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany sold patients as unwitting guinea pigs in drug trials conducted on behalf of Western pharmaceutical companies, according to a TV documentary. Journalists have spoken to former patients and their relatives and unearthed official documents proving secret collusion between the East and West.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-870984.html