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Post by vark on Aug 24, 2012 8:09:26 GMT -5
it's , new management. one study at a time at most. they are very hard to reach by phone.
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Post by vark on Aug 24, 2012 7:52:25 GMT -5
I had a skype interview with Robert. I haven't heard back, so I probably didn't get in, but it seemed like a legit deal.
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Post by vark on Aug 24, 2012 7:48:30 GMT -5
I never fly. Currently I go by bus, greyhound or megabus. I've gone thru 3 cheap cars in 5 years. My car is set up so i can sleep in the back. Sometimes cheap hotels, split with a couple guys. Last trip a hostel, I'm not very good at couchsurfing but i'm signed up there.
I focus on places that are close to me. Haven't been to TX yet, or west coast. I go, screen, come back the same night. I always assume I didn't get in. My study buddy is the other way; he likes to go, assume he'll get in, and hang out a shelter or couchsurf. That one place wisconsin was indeed setting their screenings almost a month before the study, which really cuts into what you can make in a year. They don't think in terms of us professionals; they assume everyone is local and just doing it as a hobby. Recently they were doing some screenings closer to the study date, but right now I am not screening there at all. I'm based in indiana. this year i've made trips to missouri, michigan, IN, WI, nebraska, and new york, some by car, some by bus. When i do a study, i expect to save half to cover screening expenses until i get the next study. I've had good years and bad years; so far this is a good year.
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Post by vark on Jun 22, 2012 20:34:19 GMT -5
$17K, my first and best year. this year i'm on track for over $10K. had some bad years recently. update: i'm on track for $14K this year from lab ratting, if my next study goers ok, 6K from other sources, and that'll still leave nov and dec.
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Post by vark on Jan 11, 2012 23:16:14 GMT -5
check medpace, they are doing some studies for overweight folks.
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Post by vark on Jan 3, 2012 15:45:42 GMT -5
2006 was just before my time and i haven't heard of this place. but if any of you went there, you might have a small check waiting for you from the class action folks. In May of 2006, Miami-Dade County ed the demolition of a former Holiday Inn, citing various fire and safety violations. It had been the largest drug-testing site in North America, with six hundred and seventy-five beds. The operation closed down that year, shortly after the financial magazine Bloomberg Markets reported that the building’s owner, SFBC International, was paying undocumented immigrants to participate in drug trials under ethically dubious conditions. The medical director of the clinic got her degree from a school in the Caribbean and was not licensed to practice. Some of the studies had been approved by a commercial ethical-review board owned by the wife of an SFBC vice-president. (The company, which has since changed its name to PharmaNet Development Group, says that it required subjects to provide proof of their legal status, and that the practice of medicine wasn’t part of the medical director’s duties. Last August, the company paid $28.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.) Read more www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/07/080107fa_fact_elliott#ixzz1iQj9zEgO
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Post by vark on Jan 3, 2012 15:35:54 GMT -5
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/07/080107fa_fact_elliotti found this mentioned in a book my brother gave me about getting your personal dna decoded. personal update: first time i've logged in here in months. did two short low-pay studies at kendle and cetero, got sent home from a jasper study, keep getting rejected at covance for the only low-pay studies they let me screen for. i'll probably go back to warehouse work, i've been putting it off. ideally i would find some kind of temping where i can take off to lab rat now and then.
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Post by vark on Jan 3, 2012 15:20:18 GMT -5
a few places check. like in kc where there are 3 or 4 labs they check with each other. but there's paperwork you sign that informs you.
also there's a guy promoting a service to do these checks, there's a post on it from martin, but i doubt most places are signed up. the fda could notice if they bothered, but i havent heard of the fda labratting anyone out.
paul strongly discourages this practice. i take no position on it myself.
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Post by vark on Jul 21, 2011 17:13:21 GMT -5
a month later the ad is still up. the place in columbus ohio still has the same ad from 4 months ago. maybe they are still doing the study, but seems fishy.
== months later, it seems like the ads are now current. they don't give dates, so it's hard to tell, but i think this is a fixed problem.
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Post by vark on Jul 21, 2011 17:11:40 GMT -5
you can write to the places where you have done studies and ask for a copy of your files. most of the time they will send them.
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Post by vark on Jun 20, 2011 18:27:06 GMT -5
i'm annoyed. they are advertising a study. www.medpace.com/WhatWeDo/ClinicalPharmacology/StudyParticipants/Studies/Healthy.aspxbut they dont actually have a study like that, it filled last week, but they are keeping the ad up. it doesn't even seem to be the usual bait and switch routine some places run, where they lure you in with one ad and then shunt you off to some lower paying/worse study. here, they just dont seem to care that they are lying. it violates the principles of informed consent to deliberately be advertising studies they know they don't have. i only heard of this place recently. anyone been there? it would be the closest to me of all the clinics, if it turns out to be legit. == edit 10/13. the ad problem seems to be fixed. my current issue with these folks is twice i've been sent home for false positives at check-in.
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Post by vark on Jun 20, 2011 18:19:15 GMT -5
a friend of mine had a dream in which he met a Guy Hypothetical who had symptoms like yours. My friend suggested that Guy get into a study, perhaps at the place he'd been most often, then report having the symptoms,and see what the docs there say. Meanwhile, he also suggested Guy get best available medical insurance soonest.
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Post by vark on Jun 20, 2011 18:09:16 GMT -5
my experiences there have been negative. if you are close, go screen, but it might not be worth a long drive. i live 500 miles away. i have gotten there and been told they cancelled my study but didnt bother to tell me. i have gotten there and been told the screening will take 3 days, not the 3 hours i was told. it is in the ghetto, and they seem to not treat us with dignity and respect. they pay $10 for screening, when i spend more than that on tolls. so i never go there any more. but i have talked to people who have been there and had it go ok. oh and plan to be on hold for an hour when you call long distance. = a little off topic, but re baltimore, snbl has a study for older women.
HEALTHY POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN SNBL CPC, Inc. invites you to participate in a research study at our clinical research facility in downtown Baltimore. We are looking for postmenopausal women to participate in a research study involving an investigational medication.
Participants must be: Healthy postmenopausal women, 40 years of age and older Non smokers (for at least 6 months) Available for an inpatient stay of 21 days/20 nights and 1 follow up visit.
Eligible participants may receive up to $4800 for time and travel.
Contact the SNBL Recruiting Department now: 410.706.8833 or
Email: recruiter@snbl-cpc.com the place which cannot be named in southwest indiana has a similar $9k study for older women with lots of returns.
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Post by vark on Jun 20, 2011 17:50:02 GMT -5
welcome. read paul's advice on the main site. figure out which site4s are closest to you and if it practical to get there. get on the phone with the, say, 5 closest, get in their database ask what they have. set up a screening somewhere, just to get some baseline data on how your labs, ekg, etc look. make a written request for copies of all your screening data. you might be a perfect candidate or no use to them or somewhere in between. if you are good to go, plan on getting in no more than half the time. so it's better to screen at places that are close or places that pay you a fee to screen. be honest, but don't volunteer extra info. you will be asked many trick questions with a goal of finding some reason to keep you out. get back to us with info on which places you are close to, and we can tell you more. some places are legit and lucrative, some places are scams that will waste your time gas and money. everyone's experience is a little different, but collectively we know a lot.
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Post by vark on May 30, 2011 14:43:17 GMT -5
some places have uniformed guards who take themselves too seriously. all places will search your bags for candy or medicine when you come in; it's part of the protocol. i've never been strip searched at a study. some places do nothing to screen the volunteers, so you wind up sharing space with violent loud criminals. most places are pretty cool as long as you are following the protocols; jasper and madison are examples of places i liked.
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