Whitman-Walker, Ex-Patient Settle Wrong HIV Diagnosis Suit
10 Aug (The Washington Post) - A seven-year court battle in the District over an HIV misdiagnosis ended this week when the Whitman-Walker Clinic quietly settled a $20 million lawsuit by a former patient who was mistakenly told he had the virus. In 2005, Terry Hedgepeth, (more…)
How Research into CFS Turned into an Ugly Fight
23Jul (The Daily Beast) – How did a star researcher into the medical mystery of chronic fatigue syndrome end up in jail and unemployed? For the first time, Judy Mikovits tells her story. On Nov. 9, 2011, Judy Mikovits, a well-known chronic fatigue syndrome (more…)
FDA Tracked Whistleblower E-Mails
14 Jul (NEW YORK TIMES) – A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to (more…)
Defending Duesberg, Farber & Semmelweis
13 Jul (COFFEE COUNTY, TENN) – Three years after attorney Ralph Bard MD filed a lawsuit against the Semmelweis Society International (SSI) Board of Directors, Coffee County Circuit Court Judge Vanessa Jackson has dismissed the complaint. Bard filed the lawsuit in December 2008 against SSI Board Members after they found Bard and his associates guilty of misconduct. The SSI Board revoked his membership, along with those of Lokesh Vuyyuru MD, Henry Butler MD, Blake Moore MD and George Holmes PhD. (more…)
Scientists Sue Merck: Allege Fraud for MMR Vaccine
4 Jul - Vaccinationists tell us we don’t understand science. Well maybe they are right. “Science” in the world of vaccines could mean, throwing out results that don’t fit the desired outcome, throwing out the evidence before the FDA comes to inspect, offering bonuses to scientists to deliver the necessary results …I was the head technician in a biochemistry lab for two years prior to medical school, yet I never saw science carried out like that. Maybe Temple University was just a bit behind the times in its evolution of “science.” (more…)
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Big Pharma’s Big Fines
3 Jul (PROPUBLICA) - On Monday, the Department of Justice announced that drug company GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay a $3 billion fine, the largest health care fraud fine in the history of the United States. This fine is just the latest in a string of drug company penalties for improper promotion of drugs for “off-label,” or unapproved, uses. (more…)
Virologists Claim Merck Lied About Mumps Vaccine
27 Jun (PHILADELPHIA) - Merck has known for a decade that its mumps vaccine is “far less effective” than it tells the government, and it falsified test results and sold millions of doses of “questionable efficacy,” flooding and monopolizing the market, a primary caregiver claims in a federal antitrust class action. (more…)
Lawsuit: Merck Overstated Vaccine Effectiveness
22 Jun (Morningstar) - Two former Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) employees have sued the company in federal court alleging Merck overstated the effectiveness of a mumps vaccine for which the U.S. government paid hundreds of millions of dollars. (more…)
Harvard To Be Tried for Research Fraud
11 May (AHRP) – The US Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit has overturned a summary judgement by a lower court ordering a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Dr. Kenneth Jones against Harvard Medical School, its teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts (more…)
Labs Accused of $Billions in Medicare Fraud
23 Mar (WASHINGTON) – Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (Quest) and Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), the nation’s two largest laboratories, are currently involved in a multi-billion dollar Medicare scam, according to a lengthy and critical expose published in one of the medical laboratory industry’s leading trade publications. (more…)
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