Jeffrey Huo kindly provided me the original articles to read and I've skimmed them.
Jeffrey Huo kindly provided me the original articles to read and I've skimmed them. This enabled me to find the Clinical Trial listing that was part of how the women were suckered.
The clinical trial specifically notes an inclusion criterion of "Visual acuity in the study eye <20/200".
The NEJM Case Report clearly notes that one eye of one of the three women was 20/200. The other five eyes that were injected were all better than that. In fact, 4 of the 5 eyes were a lot better than that.
I will have an opinion on details when I read the case report again and think some, but the clinical trials webpage would fool anyone who didn't have specific reasons to question it, or knowledge of how to look into a trial more deeply. Check it out.
Know that if you or a loved one is ever considering involvement in a clinical trial, it should, generally speaking, be a major pain in the ass to enroll, should take a lot of time, there should be endlessly long consent forms to sign, a lot of gobbledy-gook to explain, any compensation paid to you should not be significant (rare exceptions), and you should NEVER, EVER HAVE TO PAY ANYONE TO PARTICIPATE IN A LEGITIMATE CLINICAL TRIAL.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02024269
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02024269
The clinical trial specifically notes an inclusion criterion of "Visual acuity in the study eye <20/200".
The NEJM Case Report clearly notes that one eye of one of the three women was 20/200. The other five eyes that were injected were all better than that. In fact, 4 of the 5 eyes were a lot better than that.
I will have an opinion on details when I read the case report again and think some, but the clinical trials webpage would fool anyone who didn't have specific reasons to question it, or knowledge of how to look into a trial more deeply. Check it out.
Know that if you or a loved one is ever considering involvement in a clinical trial, it should, generally speaking, be a major pain in the ass to enroll, should take a lot of time, there should be endlessly long consent forms to sign, a lot of gobbledy-gook to explain, any compensation paid to you should not be significant (rare exceptions), and you should NEVER, EVER HAVE TO PAY ANYONE TO PARTICIPATE IN A LEGITIMATE CLINICAL TRIAL.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02024269
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02024269
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