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SOUTHERN VOICE
OCTOBER 7/1993
PAID AD
Some companies
and brokers are
promising y.ou “the
most money for
your life insurance
policy,” but they
are breaking their
promises.
They promise to only represent
your interests...they promise to get
you the most for your policy...they
promise that everything is confiden
tial...they promise you will not have
to pay their fee. They promise you
will
Steve Simon. President
There is nothing
sweeter than
a promise kept.
There is nothing
more bitter than
a promise broken
get your
money quickly.
They promise
and they promise
and they promise!
And who will
these brokers
sell your policy
to? Not the com
pany that will pay
you the most, but
someone who will
pay the broker
the most. Think about that! And who
are these “funding sources” that they
are sending your personal and confi
dential medical records to? Someone
you can check out? Someone you can
trust? Someone you would want own
ing your life insurance policy?
And who really pays the broker’s
fee? You! If you worked directly with
a company like American Life
VERTIS EMt NT
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Medical "guinea pigs" pave way
for others' better health
Atlanta—They’re medical guinea pigs:
The mother who tested an AIDS vaccine,
hoping it would protect her son. The man
trying to stop hepatitis from killing him. Two
brothers seeking relief from a painful genetic
disease.
Volunteers for medical trials put their
health on the line to get potential new drugs
out of laboratories and into drugstores.
“It’s a selfless act on anybody’s part to be
a guinea pig,” said Janie Manziek of
Pensacola, Fla., who is testing an experimen
tal AIDS vaccine out of fear the fatal disease
will strike her gay son.
“1 wish everybody could feel that way,
but 1 understand they’re scared.”
When a drug works in animals, the Food
and Drug Administration orders clinical test
ing in people. It approved testing of 10,261
experimental drugs last year.
Often, they work—attacking previously
incurable diseases, improving the cure rate or
causing fewer side effects than existing drugs.
Many others have no effect at all. And
occasionally tragedy strikes, as it did this
summer when five hepatitis patients died from
an experimental drug.
“One misconception people have is we’re
out there experimenting on people in a mad
scientist sort of approach,” said Dr. Edwin
Trevathan, who tries new epilepsy drugs on
hard-to-treat patients at Scottish Rite
Children’s Hospital in Atlanta.
“Our patients consider it a great opportu
nity. This is a chance for them to get a treat
ment years before it’s available to the general
public.”
That’s why Timothy and Thomas Burton
of Augusta volunteered to try a new drug for
sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease that
causes crippling pain.
The brothers enrolled in a Medical Col
lege of Georgia study of hydroxyurea, which
prods the body to produce normal hemoglo
bin. They think they’re getting the drug in
stead of a placebo because their pain is disap
pearing.
“You can’t stand the pain and you can’t
hardly walk and you can’t hardly breathe,”
said Thomas Burton, 26. “This really docs
help.”
But experimental drugs can go awry, as
Paul Mclstrom of Phoenix discovered.
“I feel like I was just a research throw
away,” said Mclstrom, 53, who suffered nerve
damage from what doctors thought would be
a miracle drug for the liver disease hepatitis
B.
Mclstrom developed painful nerve darn-
age in his feet and legs after taking the drug
Fialuridine, or FIAU, last year. Doctors
couldn’t prove FIAU caused the damage and
proceeded with the trial’s next phase—giving
it to 10 people for 11 weeks this year.
This time, the drug attacked patients’ liv
ers, killing five and critically injuring two
more.
Mrs. Manziek, who tested the potential
AIDS vaccine in hopes it could protect her
gay son from contracting the virus, worried
about danger in her trial too.
But Serologicals Inc. of Pensacola con
vinced her the vaccine was safe—because it
uses a laboratory-engineered portion of the
AIDS virus, not the actual virus.
Mrs. Manziek compares the vaccine trial
to the nation’s first polio vaccinations, which
she experienced as a child.
“If that could work, why couldn’t this
work?” she said. “It’s everybody’s responsi
bility to do everything we can to find a cure.”
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