Snake Oil
I have to confess to being mildly amused by this...
An Oxford University graduate died after being injected with an experimental anti-ageing drug by her sister, a GP. Yolanda Cox, 22, suffered a massive allergic reaction after being given three times the normal dose as part of a test of the unlicensed drug invented by their mother.
Mrs Cox had been married for just nine months when she agreed to be a guinea pig for the drug, which the family also believed to be effective against cancer and diabetes.
It not that medical research, serious medical reserch should be taken at all lightly, but these muppets weren't just playing at it, they were positively dangerous
Hospital doctors and paramedics said the family resisted requests to give them information about the drug even when Mrs Cox was in intensive care, the inquest heard. Dr Alexander Mackay, of the Royal Free Hospital, said: 'The family were extremely reluctant to go into detail about the drug. They wouldn't say what was in it, and said I didn't need to know
My only regret about this story is that the rest of the family didn't each have a large shot of their homemade drug in their glasses of Cool Aid.
Comments
But the drug worked. She didn't age.
Posted by: View from the Solent | June 15, 2009 8:52 AM
it's evolution in action.
Posted by: pdwalker | June 15, 2009 11:03 AM
Her mother needs to be injected with this drug.
If she didn't want to pay for animal tests, she should have volunteered herself, and not her daughter.
Posted by: Kristopher | June 15, 2009 5:33 PM
Meet the Moron Family.
They are a branch of the clan which refuses to immunize their children with the MMR vaccine.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | June 15, 2009 6:43 PM