ONE person
has been left “brain dead” and five other people have been hospitalised after a
clinical trial went wrong in France.
The Ministry of
Health said the trial was being undertaken in Rennes. Local media are reporting
a new cannabis-based painkiller was being tested.
Taken orally, it
was undergoing a Phase 1 clinical trial at a licenced private European
laboratory that specialises in clinical trials, the French health ministry
said.
The trial aimed to
evaluate the “safety, tolerance and pharmaceutical properties of the molecule”
in volunteers.
Marisol Touraine,
the French health minister, said she was travelling to the hospital where the
group are being treated.
“Marisol Touraine
wants to express her solidarity and deep determination to get to the bottom of
what happened and establish responsibility for this tragic accident,” a
statement said.
One of the six
patients is in intensive care at Rennes University Hospital, where the other
five are also receiving medial treatment.
France’s medicines
agency (ANSM) has now launched an investigation into the incident.
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