European perspective: Bird Flu–BBC Panoarama / German skeptics / Rumsfeld Tamiflu stock $5 to $25 million Sat, 5 Nov 2005 As the media continues its senstional coverage of the “Bird Flu pandemic”, healthy skeptics are examining the evidence. Two European examinations–The BBC Panorama will air a program, Lessons from Vietnam,…
July 23, 2002 Unhealthy Hospitals – 103,000 preventable deaths in 2000 – Chicago Tribune FYI The next time someone suggests that you to enter a clinical trial at a hospital, beware: “The number of people needlessly killed by hospital infections is unbelievable, but the public doesn’t know anything about it….
Protecting People with Mental Disabilities and Impairments against Biomedical Research Abuse[*] By John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA Vera Hassner Sharav, MLS, Alliance for Human Research Protection, New York, USA People with mental disabilities and impairments historically have been targeted by biomedical researchers…
Marcia Angell: The Body Hunters & The Constant Gardner Mon, 19 Sep 2005 Marcia Angell’s insightful and informative review of the film and John le Carre’s book, The Constant Gardner, needs no additional commentary: "On the basis of the research I did for my book I believe that most of…
Subject: Drug Test Loopholes Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:08:50 -0400 The medical, legal and ethical repercussions of the use of untested medical products–including the smallpox vaccine– have not been publicly debated. Below is a column by Meryl Nass, MD, that appeared online at Redflagsweekly.com in August, addressing the inadequate…
Incentives to Pharma Companies but Health Care Leaders Voice Doubts on Smallpox Inoculations Thu, 30 Jan 2003 The New York Times reports (below) that serious doubts about the president’s smallpox vaccination plan emerged at a Senate hearing Wednesday. The Washington Post reports (below) that "The hearing illustrated the growing tensions…
GAO Found CDC Supervision of Bioagents Weak Wed, 4 Dec 2002 The Scientist reports that on Nov. 22, the General Accounting Office (GAO) sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services reporting that its auditors spotted “significant management weaknesses” in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Integrity of Medical Regulators Wed, 8 Jun 2005 The UK MHRA (equivalent of US FDA) has been caught in flat out public deception. The MHRA–which is entirely funded by the pharmaceutical industry–had claimed that two thirds of professional organizations it consulted favored selling a heart medication (Zocor Heart-Pro) without a…
Subject: Opposition to smallpox vaccine Plan_USA Today Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:05:27 -0400 On Sept. 28 AHRP’s Infomail questioned the ethics of a proposed pediatric smallpox vaccine trial that would expose children in Cincinnati and California to a vaccine whose safety is shrouded in controversy. Given the failing grades…
September 28, 2002 Smallpox Vaccine to be tested in children – why hasn’t CDC released their vaccine data? FYI WHOSE CHILDREN ARE BEING USED TO TEST THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL,SMALLPOX VACCINE? According to Newsday (below), the tests will be conducted at Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, marking…
More CDC Dirty Work re: ANTHRAX Vaccine – Meryl Nass, MD Wed, 20 Nov 2002 More indications that non-medical considerations are influencing the government’s anti-bioterrorism vaccine policy. In her column on RedFlags Weekly, Dr. Meryl Nass, board member of The Alliance for Human Research Protection, challenges the ethics of the…
Merck Baby Vaccines Not Pure – LAT/ FDA Advisory-Crestor / Zyprexa Lawsuit charges Lilly concealed Diabetes risk Fri, 11 Mar 2005 The FDA’s failure to carry out its watchdog responsibility to protect the public from unsafe drugs, has encouraged the pharmaceutical industry to conceal the risks and deceive the public….
