Word: informativeness
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Members of Students for Choice said they hoped the protest would inform the Cambridge and Harvard communities about what the clinic is doing. They said they would not try to physically disrupt the center's operations...
...event is designed to provide support for gays students coming out of the closet and to inform them of the resources available for them at the University, organizers said...
...panelist, Martin Delaney, the head of an AIDS information program called Project Inform, said the government should allow AIDS patients to determine for themselves what risks they are willing to accept when they take unapproved medications...
...clandestine study became public in late June after a San Francisco volunteer suffocated on his vomit after coming out of a coma ten days following his first dose of Compound Q. The FDA launched an investigation into the underground trials, which Project Inform suspended. Two other volunteers have since died, one in San Francisco and one in New York. Levin says the death of one of the San Francisco men was indirectly related to Compound Q, while the cause of the New York man's death has yet to be determined...
Some researchers raise serious doubts about the methodology of guerrilla drug tests. Project Inform is strongly criticized for bypassing an initial phase to establish Compound Q's safety before proceeding to larger, therapeutic dosages and for not having the trials reviewed by an external monitoring group. Says Jere Goyan, dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Pharmacy and a former FDA commissioner: "If you get people taking these drugs willy-nilly around the country, you'll lose valuable information, and it will be at the expense of future patients...