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Anger over East German medical ‘human guinea pigs’
Germany is confronting another chapter from its past — allegations that Western drug companies used more than 50,000 people in the former communist East as “human guinea pigs” in 1980s medical trials. News magazine Spiegel this week reported that a who’s who of big German, Swiss and US pharmaceutical companies…
Revealed: Big Pharma tested dangerous new drugs on unknowing Germans
Western drug companies tested pharmaceuticals on more than 50,000 people in the former communist East Germany, often without the knowledge of patients, several of whom died, the Spiegel news weekly reported Sunday. Some 600 clinical trials were carried out in more than 50 hospitals until the 1989 fall of the…
Pharma firms tested drugs on East Germans: report
Major Western pharmaceutical companies carried out tests of medications in the 1980s on patients in communist East Germany, in some cases without the subjects’ knowledge, a media report said Friday. “We have documents showing there were contracts between Western drug companies and East German institutions for medical tests,” a staff…
Study: Millions of East Germans returning home
Many of the millions of east Germans who flocked to the west of the country to take jobs after the Berlin Wall fell are now returning home, a study to be published Thursday showed. In 2010 alone more than 40,000 people born in communist East Germany who had moved west…
East German rights activist Gauck elected president
BERLIN — Activist pastor Joachim Gauck became German president by an overwhelming majority Sunday, marking the first time a candidate from the former communist east will serve as head of state. Gauck claimed 991 votes out of 1,232 from a special assembly of MPs and other dignitaries, parliamentary speaker Norbert…
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