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Swine flu vaccine link with narcolepsy probed

yobgod · 2011-09-16 15:03:00

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0916/swineflu.html whats next do they not try these drugs first:mad:

16-09-2011 03:03PM

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yobgod

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http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0916/swineflu.html

whats next

do they not try these drugs first:mad:

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#2 16-09-2011 08:09PM

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well, yes they do test the drugs first. A clinicial trial could never reach the number of participants that a drug in use can. Genuinely rare events wont crop up in a smaller trial.

Im more interested if RTE will cover the results of the investigation if no link is found.

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