Man dead after taking part in drugs trial in France
A man died in a French hospital on Sunday after taking part in a drug trial for a painkiller based on a compound similar to cannabis.
The Rennes University Hospital announced the death in a statement but did not identify the patient, who had already been in a state of brain death.
He was among six male volunteers between 28 and 49 hospitalised last week after volunteering to take the experimental drug.
French health authorities said three of the hospitalised volunteers face possible brain damage and an investigation is under way into what French health minister Marisol Touraine called "an accident of exceptional gravity".
The trial, which began on January 7, involved 90 healthy volunteers who were given the experimental drug in varying doses at different times.
The hospital said it has contacted the 84 other volunteers exposed to the new painkiller.
Ten of those volunteers underwent medical exams on...
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