Standard practice for such trials is to use just one patient or to separate tests by many days.
The infrastructure for such trials, often in the form of government hospitals, is widely available.
Such misgivings are unlikely to be allayed by the coming line-up at Fort Hood base in Texas, the primary US venue for such trials.
Officials from the Department of Defense, which is responsible for developing the rules for such trials, are expected to testify on Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
It is necessary for such trials to take place, not only for the sake of the countries involved and the victims of such atrocities, but also for the sake of the international community as a whole.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld sought today to address growing criticism over plans to try terrorists before military tribunals, saying he would move in a "very measured and conservative" way to establish procedures for such trials.
Stroke experts are sharply split about the device's value — which is why, regardless of their view, they agree it is urgent for such trials to be conducted, to prove or disprove the benefit to stroke patients.
Unfortunately, such a result is much less likely to be reported.That is particularly true for trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry which, according to the American Medical Association AMAaccountednted for over 70% of the funding for such trials in America in 2002, the most recent year for which figures are available.
In the interviews, the 2001 jurors empathized with the Ghailani jurors, perhaps seeing them as having joined a unique, exclusive club of Americans who are randomly selected for such trials, forced to place their lives on hold for weeks or months and sit through graphic images and testimony on death and destruction.
It defines and explains the rationale for such trials.
