Posts Tagged ‘GlaxoSmithKline’
GSK Infanrix hexa & sudden death: a review of the safety update reports submitted to EMA
In their peer reviewed commentary in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Dr. Jacob Puliyel, Head of Pediatrics, St. Stephen’s Hospital and C Sathyamala, Public Health Physician and Epidemiologist, examine sudden infant deaths following vaccination with GlaxoSmithKline’s hexavalent (6 in 1) “Infanrix hexa” vaccine, The authors point out that their analysis of the data submitted by…
Read MoreAccountability Demanded – NYC Foster Children AIDS drug trials
The efforts of AHRP to hold the medical research community and government administrators accountable for unethical exploitation of vulnerable children in medical experiments conducted in violation of federal regulations.
Read MoreUK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs" Guardian
UK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs”_Guardian Feb 9 2003 Medical fraud experts in the U.K. estimate that one per cent of all drug trials involve fraud, including failure to get proper consent from patients. An investigation by The Guardian / Observer (UK) found widespread abuse by doctors who use patients as guinea pigs to…
Read MoreDiane Harper, MD
Professor and chair of the department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville. From 2009 to 2013 she was a professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City’s department of Biomedical and Health Informatics. From 1996 to 2009 she was a professor at Dartmouth Medical School and director of the Gynecologic Cancer…
Read MoreAndrew Wakefield, MD
“No name in contemporary English medicine is greeted with such polarized reactions as that of Dr. Andrew Wakefield” *read: L’affaire Wakefield: Shades of Dreyfus & BMJ’s Descent into Tabloid Science Andrew Wakefield, MD, an academic gastroenterologist, trained at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, the fourth generation of his family to do so. He practiced medicine as…
Read MoreBiodefense Stockpile Boondoggle: $334 Million Anthrax Drug
“Holy smoke — that was a horrible conflict of interest.” — Dr. Philip K. Russell, on Richard Danzig’s dual roles as corporate director and government advisor. . . .
Read MoreIndia Supreme Court Orders End to Illegal Clinical Trials
“You have to protect the health of the citizens of the country. It is your obligation. Deaths must be arrested and illegal trials must be stopped.”
Read MoreCan Medical Research be Trusted?
“Unfortunately, the entire evidence base has been perverted,” said Joseph Ross, a professor at Yale Medical School who has studied the issue.
Read MoreA Bad Judicial Decision Undercuts Drug Safety Law
"I’m as big a fan of the 1st Amendment as anyone, but this decision strikes me as fundamentally flawed. We’re not talking about a right to express yourself. We’re talking about selling stuff — stuff that could harm or even kill you if used improperly." David Lazarus, LA Times
Read MoreHave India’s Poor Become Human Guinea Pigs?
"Over the past seven years, some 73 clinical trials on 3,300 patients – 1,833 of whom were children – have taken place at Indore’s Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital. Dozens of patients have died during the trials, however no compensation has been paid to the families left behind."
Read MoreFlu Vaccines Are a Waste of Money
Respected international scientists who examined the evidence, concluded that annual influenza campaigns are likely an utter waste of time and money." But officials at the US Centers for Disease Control disregard science and accept commercial propaganda as their guide for setting public health policy.
Safety Issues: FDA Scientists Collide with FDA Managers
Since 1995 FDA scientists have been at odds against FDA managers who routinely override sientists’ safety concerns to approve dubious prescription drugs.
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