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Free Trips to India/Mexico/Guatemala (not spam)
SugarSpun
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This is a pair of medical trials for a new holiday-tummy medication - it involves a week in either Mexico/Guatemala or India (two different websites) for people who fit their criteria, which are:
I think there's more on the site, but since I have a five-month-old baby I can't go.
If you're signed up, you can also get referrals for getting other people signed up too, but as I said I'm not signed up because I can't go.
The mini-catches are that you have to go to one of their specified cities and not be more than three hours by land from one of their clinics, plus they reimburse rather than pay up front. But they'll keep taking volunteers till the places are full, and this could be a free holiday for someone
I hope someone gets to enjoy it, I'm sick that I can't
Volunteers must:
- Be between 18-64 years of age
- In general good health
- Traveling to Mexico or Guatemala for at least 7 days between October 2009 and May 2010
- Willing to maintain a daily study diary for 17 days
I think there's more on the site, but since I have a five-month-old baby I can't go.
If you're signed up, you can also get referrals for getting other people signed up too, but as I said I'm not signed up because I can't go.
The mini-catches are that you have to go to one of their specified cities and not be more than three hours by land from one of their clinics, plus they reimburse rather than pay up front. But they'll keep taking volunteers till the places are full, and this could be a free holiday for someone
I hope someone gets to enjoy it, I'm sick that I can't
Organised Birthdays and Christmas: Spend So Far: £193.75; Saved from RRP £963.76
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Strange grabbit deal though0
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I know it's a bit unusual, but a friend of mine works for an affiliated pharma company and they're having trouble getting people to sign up, so it does him a favour to advertise it and might get someone a fantastic holiday - or their money back if they're going anyway.Organised Birthdays and Christmas: Spend So Far: £193.75; Saved from RRP £963.76
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Not really that strange, its a free holiday!
Do you know what the trial is for? Does it involve taking anything or being probed?Mummy to
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Em, it's an anti-diarrhoea medication, so it involves either the medication or a placebo.Organised Birthdays and Christmas: Spend So Far: £193.75; Saved from RRP £963.76
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How exciting! I'd do it if it wasnt for the wee one. How selfish, you could have posted this a couple of years ago :rotfl:Mummy to
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Em, it's an anti-diarrhoea medication, so it involves either the medication or a placebo.
Great spot OP, I've got to be at work otherwise i'd apply :rolleyes:
Mind, the thought of being stuck in a hotel loo with placebo medication is slightly off-putting (I'm lucky like that)
:eek: I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.0 -
Just think, you could end up dead or crippled for life.
Remember that drugs trial a few years ago - nobody even got any compensation either, becuase the drug company cunningly went bust as soon as the people got ill.British Ex-pat in British Columbia!0 -
Great spot OP, I've got to be at work otherwise i'd apply :rolleyes:
Mind, the thought of being stuck in a hotel loo with placebo medication is slightly off-putting (I'm lucky like that):eek:
I'm gutted I can't go - especially because I have guts of steel. Three weeks travelling in Egypt and ten days on safari in Kenya and not so much as a stomach cramp. But I can't take the baby so I can't go
Withabix, this is phase 3 - it's not killed anyone so far.Organised Birthdays and Christmas: Spend So Far: £193.75; Saved from RRP £963.76
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Great spot OP, I've got to be at work otherwise i'd apply :rolleyes:
Mind, the thought of being stuck in a hotel loo with placebo medication is slightly off-putting (I'm lucky like that):eek:
Maybe the placebo would work if you used it as a cork....British Ex-pat in British Columbia!0 -
I guess if you're going any way it's great, but I'd be worried about not being re-imbursed in these troubled times.0
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