Federal data show that it's rare for people to die from negligence or mismanaged care in clinical trials. Side effects and reactions are much more common. According to the Food and Drug Administration, one out of 10,000 patients has died from the effects of drugs being studied, but one in every 30 study subjects will have a serious adverse event.
Yet, people in clinical trials aren't always aware of the risk. A recent survey by CenterWatch found that even after signing required consent forms, 14 percent of study participants didn't understand they could suffer side effects during an experiment.
"I didn't even bother reading the consent papers," said Ralph Stephens, a 69-year-old Niles man who entered a clinical trial at Northwestern M
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