News tagged with 'Hexamethonium'

The family of Ellen Roche, the Johns Hopkins University asthma study participant who died during a clinical trial, recently announced that a settlement had been reached with the school over Roche's death. Roche, an otherwise healthy 24-year-old lab worker, died on June 2, 2001 after inhaling hexamethonium, a drug know

Today, Johns Hopkins resumed federally funded research studies involving human subjects. The government suspended the hospital's privileges last week, following the death of a volunteer involved in an asthma study. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) reinstate

The CEO of Johns Hopkins Medical Institution admitted the hospital's responsibility in the death of a 24-year-old study participant. Ellen Roche was an otherwise healthy woman when she voluntarily enrolled in Hopkins' study of irritants that cause asthma. As part of the study, Roche was given one gram of hexame

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a young woman who died in a Johns Hopkins University clinical trial was not informed of the experimental nature of the medication she was given. In addition, FDA investigators cited the study's organizers for failing to report a previous adverse reaction to the medi

The study volunteer who died during research at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center was an otherwise healthy woman. Ellen Roche was employed at the Center and volunteered to participate in a study in which she was required to inhale a blood pressure medication known as hexamethonium. Roche died one month afte