![]() American volunteers often participate in multiple trials. 75% take place in private practices or commercial research centres. The meteoric rise in inexpensive drug testing can be explained by three factors according to the Indian institute, namely “cheap human resources, the low cost of recruiting volunteers and the low amount of compensation paid out in the event of injury or death.” Serial participants in the United StatesĪround 40% of all clinical trials in the world occur in the United States. ![]() In 2008, 0.9% of trials took place in this south Asian country this figure rose to 4.9% in 2013. India is home to an increasing number of clinical trials according to the New Delhi Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. ![]() This is almost three times the amount of the monthly minimum salary in this city. Also known as the sleep hormone, melatonin is an ingredient in a number of sleeping medications. According to the newspaper The Hindu, in the region around Bangalore, an Indian can receive 300 Swiss francs for participating in a therapeutic trial on melatonin. In India and the United States, where healthy subjects receive an actual salary in exchange for their participation, people tend to volunteer more for financial reasons than altruistic ones. ![]() Hundreds of thousands of people around the world volunteer every year to advance medicine.
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