Slumdog clinical trials contd.
BERNAMA - Pharma Companies Alleged To Have Conducted Illegal Drug Test On Tribal Girls
INDORE, Jan 8 (Bernama) -- The Supreme Court on Monday said a public interest litigation has been filed by local activists alleging pharmaceutical companies had conducted unauthorised drug tests of their vaccine on tribal girls.
The Times of India reported the petition alleges that pharmaceutical companies, including Glaxo Smithkline and MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, tested gardasil and cervarix -- two unproven human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines purported to prevent cervical cancer -- on nearly 24,000 tribal girls in Andhra Pradesh and...
Source: PharmaGossip - January 9, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Serious Allegations against HPV Vaccine Trials Affecting Thousands of Girls Accepted by Supreme Court of India
CONCLUSION
There has been no evidence to suggest that any of the above crucial issues were ever considered by any of the organizations involved in these vaccination trials.
Time and again, according to the petition, PATH has denied that it carried out a trial in India. It insists that what it was doing was merely a post-licensure study. This explanation was unacceptable to the Indian government’s inquiry. It concluded that by whatever name PATH chooses to call its exercise, under the Indian Drugs and Cosmetics Act, it was indeed a clinical trial and all safeguards should have been observed. Yet PATH and WHO have hailed t...
Source: vactruth.com - January 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Cervarix cervical cancer gardasil GlaxoSmithKline Gramya Resource Centre for Women HPV ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research NGO PATH State of Andhra Pradesh Wor Source Type: blogs
Annual Report to the Nation on Cancer Trends: Cancer Deaths Continue to Fall, But We Can Do Better
This report comes out every year. It is a summation of what we know about the trends in incidence rates for the most common cancers in the United States among both men and women as well as the trends in death rates from those cancers that lead to the highest mortality in the general population as well as specific ethnic groups. It is in a real sense a report card on our progress, which in large part is good but in a number of cancers, not so good.
The good news is what we have come to expect: since the year 2000, the overall cancer death rates have continued to decline 1.8% per year in men, 1.4% in women and 0.6% per year ...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - January 7, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Early detection Lung Cancer Other cancers Prevention Prostate Cancer Rectal Cancer Research Screening Tobacco Treatment Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Indian Court Wants Stricter Clinical Trial Oversight
Amid ongoing concern over the conduct of clinical trials in India and patient protection, the Indian Supreme Court has slammed regulators for shoddy oversight that is creating “havoc” and leading to the deaths of many citizens.
In sharp remarks, the government was criticized for going into a “deep slumber” and failing to establish mechanisms to stop “rackets” of multinational drugmakers, which are allegedly conducting illegal clinical trials around the country, according to various media reports (see here and here).
“There has to be some sense of responsibility (on the part of the government). H...
Source: Pharmalot - January 7, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Trials GlaxoSmithKline HPV India Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Documents Show Merck Paid This Popular Website $3.5 Million Dollars for Promoting Vaccines
CONCLUSION
The pharmaceutical company pockets run deep. When analyzed, you can see how much influence their money can buy.
Parents want strong children and honest answers. Do you really think Merck invested all of this money to educate you about vaccines or to sell their product? I will leave you to be the judge of that important question.
Lastly, as new documents become available, my hope is that parents will start to see how Big Pharma runs their operations: spending their cash to buy influence. Maybe vaccine safety does have a price tag.
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Source: vactruth.com - January 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Centers for Disease Control (CDC) MedScape Merck Physician Payment Sunshine Act (PPSA) vaccine ingredients WebMD Source Type: blogs
the (new) Gardasil controversy
JAMA 8/19/09 – In case the Gardasil vaccine wasn’t already surrounded by enough controversy – now there is concern over its safety profile and the marketing practices of Merk. An article in JAMA presents the safety surveillance data for qHPV, finding that “Most of the AEFI rates were not greater than the background rates compared with other vaccines, but there was disproportional reporting of syncope and venous thromboembolic events”
An accompanying editorial discusses the extensive marketing to and through medical professional organizations via the use of manufacturer – designed educati...
Source: Consider The Evidence: Med/Peds Journal Roundup - September 11, 2009 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: medblog Tags: immunity JAMA pediatrics vaccines Source Type: blogs
