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'90 volunteers got drug that left one brain-dead in France'

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An experimental drug that left one person brain dead during a clinical trial in France was given to 90 people in varying doses, the country's Health Minister Marisol Touraine said today.

Pierre-Gilles Edan, head of the neurology department at the hospital in Rennes where six trial volunteers were admitted for treatment, said that aside from the man who was clinically dead, three others were suffering a "handicap that could be irreversible.

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First Published: Jan 15 2016 | 10:07 PM IST

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