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Gilead GS9620 trials, thumbs down, no regard for the patient

They say they want chronic HBV patients. But they won't take you if you were treated before!

Recruiters for this company that conduct clinical trials - talk to patients like we are raw material. Total disregard for people with such a viral infection.

What is the difference between a treated patient before and naive? Taking NUCs is a waste of time, once one stops it he is back to square one, same as the one that has not been treated before.

Common scene, compassion, does not apply to these people given that there is nothing for HBV, and their drug at least as good as interferon and with less sides should be given to people that want and can participate in the research especially if it is going on near where they live.

And yet it is Unobtainium!  

There are so many clerical stuff people, pretending doing work at these so called clinical trial facilities, when in fact any doctor or local hospital can monitor most of these drugs sending labs directly to the manufacturer.

They prescribe peg on the outpatient basis, what makes this different?

What I am getting at is that saving costs on people that don't need to be there, can allow a company to expand the clinical trial patient inclusion range.. thus approve these medications faster..

Anyway, I am totally discussed with what I see, American health care system is just GONE!!, it is all about money, there is no human factor at all. We should go in with hidden video cameras to these recruitment centers and tape the interviews and put them out on youtube for all to see, what is going on..

They don't even show you inclusion criteria till you get to the facility, and they don't even let you keep a copy of the agreement they just let you read! Why is that Gilead? Are you afraid it may end up on the forums like this one for people to read?

How can HBV chronically ill patients can be even considered to be a in a placebo group? We are not moneys you know!

Yet again all this is legal and FDA approved. Draw your own conclusions folks. yes, I had a bad a day today, because I am so sick of this.. The most corrupted, heartless industry you will ever deal with. And yes, I said industry - because it is not medicine, how we are treated. This is against all the RedCross principles, and against any principles of a civil society btw if the big pharma companies and their affiliates can do whatever they want..

Don't call it clinical trials. Call it product testing! That is a more appropriate word.. because this is not medicine.

So thumbs down to Gilead clinical trials, and their ethics.
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they said I could be in the trial if I wanted = currently taking TDF.  Just have to have HBVDNA Und for 6 months or longer
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placebos are going on, mostly because of tradition and old school thinking.
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placebo is really an old fashioned and  outdated concept. and it seems anti-humanity and in most of the trials(absolutly not all trials) it is not required and is useless.
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veteran : As for placebo use in chronic hbv subjects. It is unethical.

exactly, placebo must be unethical, what is the need to do placebo every time? once they know natural history of a desease, there is absolutely no need to do placebo every time.
placebo is centuries times old concept of medicine, when it was required because at that time very less was studied and documented on natural histories of deseases. nowadays most of the deseas's natural history is well documented in scientific literature and easily available.
placebo may be allowed in deseases where new blood test or monitoring parameters emerged with time (as hbsag in hep b which was not approved before),which were not available before. in these cases placebo may be allowed but otherwise it should not.
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please inform us, about this new GILEAD sponsored trial. what is it about, gs-9620 or some other compound?
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As you visited the GS9620 cinical trial center do you have any update about the trial
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