Ebola drug studies "must include one critical feature of traditional medical testing: a control group of patients who do not receive the drugs."

Ebola drug testing sparks ethics debate

By MATTHEW PERRONE

AP Health Writer

"WASHINGTON (AP) - Health officials are scrambling to begin human testing of a handful of experimental drugs for Ebola. But the effort has sparked an ethical debate over how to study unproven medicines amid an outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000.

U.S. officials say the studies must include one critical feature of traditional medical testing: a control group of patients who do not receive the drugs."