Stranger than fiction.

Are you a test subject for new medical drugs? Well if you live in the US, are poor, and an unconscious trauma patient from a impoverished neighborhood, you might be an unwilling participant in medical research that was being carried out. In an almost unreal scenario in 2005, a medical research company, Northfield, paid the University of California, the City of San Diego and many other institutions an undisclosed amount of money to have paramedics infuse PolyHeme in to poor trauma patients.