Scientists’ Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results
Two years ago, a group of Boston researchers published a study describing how they had destroyed cancer tumors by targeting a protein called STK33. Scientists at biotechnology firm Amgen Inc. quickly pounced on the idea and assigned two dozen researchers to try to repeat the experiment with a goal of turning the findings into a drug. (more…)
$433-million Smallpox Drug Deal Questioned
13 Nov | WASHINGTON - Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contra (more…)
Fresh dispute about MMR ‘fraud’
NATURE -It is one of the most serious allegations that could be made about a doctor: manipulating patients’ histories to make money. So it is no wonder that the charges, levied by editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in January against medical researcher Andrew Wakefield, are still getting close scrutiny. Now an American whistleblower advocacy group has joined the fray over Wakefield, who in 1998 hypothesized a link, now (more…)
Human Experiments: Outsourcing Tuskegee
7 Nov - A new policy brief faults prominent institutions and drug companies like Pfizer, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and Population Council, for their involvement in unethical and illegal human experimentation in Africa. (more…)
10 More Months for Teen who Cited Prozac in Killing
5 Nov - A Winnipeg teen who blames Prozac for the unprovoked murder of his friend will soon be back on the streets. The boy, who was 16 at the time of the deadly September 2009 stabbing inside a West St. Paul home, was sentenced Friday to 10 more months behind bars in addition to (more…)
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GlaxoSmithKline to Pay Another $3 billion
4 Nov - In one of the largest settlements of its kind, GlaxoSmithKline PLC said it will pay the U.S. government $3 billion to settle several long-running criminal and civil investigations into the company, including allegations that Glaxo marketed some drugs illegally and (more…)
Scandal Exposed in Mercury-Autism Study
SILVER SPRING, Md 25 Oct - The Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD) exposes communications between Centers for Disease Control (CDC) personnel and vaccine researchers revealing U.S. officials apparently colluded in covering-up the decline in Denmark’s autism rates following the removal of mercury from vaccines. (more…)
Gardasil Controversy Soars, Bachmann, Perry Drop
3 Oct – Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, two presidential candidates who sparred over the issue of Texas vaccinations, may be floundering in the polls, but the topic of Merck’s controversial Gardasil is heating up – with an Austrian physician who studied the drug saying (more…)
Rick Perry’s Vaccine Shocker
When Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., raised the Gardasil question to Texas Gov. Rick Perry during the GOP presidential debates, the old-stream media immediately attacked her for holding an unseemly position: That the vaccine potentially was dangerous and certainly should not be imposed by the government on young girls. (more…)
New Reports Cast Further Doubt on Psych Drugs
AHRP – For two decades, medical professionals, the public, and public health policy officials who determine the allocation of public funds for healthcare, have been misled about the safety (more…)
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