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Patients in Peril - Western Pharmaceuticals Firms in the Former East Germany

January 10, 2013

During the 1980s, Communist East Germany allowed more than 50 Western pharmaceutical companies to carry test medications on patients. Several thousand patients are believed to have been used as guinea pigs in drug trials, often without their knowledge or consent

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