Story out of Rennes, France:
Six people participating in a clinical trial for an experimental drug have been hospitalized after a “serious accident,” France’s Health Ministry said.
One of the people is on life support and is considered brain dead, the ministry said in an e-mailed statement on Friday. The treatment is being developed by a European drugmaker, according to statement, which didn’t name the compound or its developer.
The participants in the early-stage trial were healthy volunteers and the drug was taken orally, the ministry said. The six volunteers were taken to the University Hospital of Rennes, and others who took the treatment are being recalled.
The drug being tested was a cannabis-based painkiller, according to French daily Le Figaro. Cont.
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Update - The drug developed by the Portuguese science group Bail says it does not contain Cannabis.
Update 2 - Patient left brain dead has died. 5 still in hospital.
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