Drug trial man 'may lose fingers'

[JPace]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4914546.stm

Last Updated: Sunday, 16 April 2006, 17:01 GMT 18:01 UK
Drug trial man 'may lose fingers'

A man who fell into a coma during a drugs trial last month has said he may lose parts of his fingers and toes.
Ryan Wilson, 20, from London, was the most seriously ill of six men whose heads and bodies swelled up following injections of TGN1412.

He told the News of the World he could need to stay in hospital for six more months as his condition is monitored.

"They're waiting for my body to heal," he said. "I'm told it's like frostbite and my fingers will just fall off."

Photographs in the newspaper show Mr Wilson in bed at Northwick Park Hospital, north west London, with his blackened feet and hands.

"The doctors say they don't want to take my fingers off because that's messier than if the body sorts itself out, " he told the paper.

"So if the fingers fall off they'll actually heal better.

"They're waiting for pink flesh to move further up the feet, but the tips of most of my toes are basically dead. So at the very least I'll lose them."
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[don954]

1. I know people will say he entered the study of his own free will

but since he didn't have a medical degree, or even had taken college level medical course work, i doubt he could have properly entered informed consent. For the general public, entering these studies is like a 7 year old joining NAMBLA, they don't know what the heck they are getting into...

[depakid]

2. "The previously healthy men..."

This is what I find disturbing.

£2,000 isn't much compensation for the loss of fingers and toes....

[quiet.american]

3. This is one of those horror stories that boggles the mind.... n/t