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Jacob Puliyel, MD, MRCP, M Phil, heads pediatrics at St. Stephens Hospital Delhi, India, and member of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) of the Government of India. Dr. Puliyel leads a group of concerned pediatricians, health care activists, teachers in Public Health and public officials who challenge ill-conceived national vaccine policies. Such…

Sixty-eight years after theverdict concluding the Nuremberg Doctors Trial–a verdict that includes the Nuremberg Code–the German Medical Association (Bundesarztekammer) has finally acknowledged the culpability of Germany’s medical community during the Nazi regime.

A year after professor Susan M. Reverby, a historian at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, uncovered a heinous Guatemalan syphilis experiment conducted between 1946 and 1948, on at least 5,500 under the auspices of the US Public Health Service, a hearing was held this week about the findings of the President’s Bioethics Commission investigation. The…

Why does the Obama administration shield PhRMA companies against lawsuits by public hospitals and clinics that have been overcharged for drugs in violation of a federal law mandating reduced drug prices for clinics and hospitals that serve the poor?

In 2008, 6,485 trials were conducted off shore with almost no FDA oversight. Seventy-eight percent of all human test subjects were enrolled at foreign sites.

A stunning admission of failure by major drug manufacturers who market drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. "We really believe drugs are failing because we honestly don’t understand the disease."

The US government is initiating several radical medical experiments that will ensure widespread, increased use of mostly toxic drugs whose adverse effects trigger chronic, debilitating illnesses.

“Catastrophic side effects may be rare, but they become predictable when we treat so many children with so many drugs.”

The Baltimore Sun reports (below) that in a paper scheduled for publication in the journal Epidemiology and Infection, a Harvard University-led team proposes that a vitamin D deficiency caused by inadequate winter sun exposure may predispose people to infection.

Minnesota initiative: Compulsory newborn congenital testing Mon, 24 Mar 2003 The Minnesota House Health and Human Services Policy Committee will vote tomorrow on a law requiring the screening of every newborn baby to ascertain who may have a congenital disorder. It is important to note that this “public health” initiative is not intended to provide…

AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav March 15a, 2002 Harm to Alzheimer ExperimentalPatients FYI ABC reports that Bob Helms, the self-described humanguinea pig, has written a book about his experience and observations about theconduct of research and those…

Submitted Testimony of Meryl Nass, MD Mount Desert Island Hospital Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 (207) 288-5082 ext. 220 Senate Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness Hearing: Biodefense: Next Steps Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 10 am SD-430 Dirksen Senate Office Building Thank you for the opportunity to submit this testimony for the record. My name…

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Jacob Puliyel, MD, MRCP, M Phil

German Medical Society Apologizes for Nazi-era Atrocities by Doctors

Obama Administration Duplicity: Drug Firms Shielded from Lawsuits Over Inflated Pricing

Deadly Medicine: Foreign Clinical Trials_Vanity Fair

New Theory of Alzheimer’s Explains Drug Failures

US Gov Medical Experiment Radically Departs from medical “Best Practices”

Serotonin Syndrome: A Mix of Medicines That Can Be Lethal

Theory suggests that a shortage of vitamin D triggers outbreaks of flu

Minnesota initiative: Compulsory newborn congenital testing

Nass – Senate Subcommittee on Bioterrorism & Public Health Preparedness – Biodefense