Lupus: the great imitator
Imagine yourself as a young woman who by all accounts appears healthy. One day you experience flu like symptoms, see your physician, and are sent home with the usual: sleep, hydrate, take two of these, and you get better. But do you? Some time passes and you become sick again, this time with a different gamut of symptoms including recurring infections, joint pains, headaches, fatigue, depression, rashes, etc. As a result, you find yourself in and out of this complicated domestic health care delivery system, seeing one physician/specialist after another and are left with little to no answers.
Fast forward a few years. You...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Chronic Conditions Women's Health chronic disease lupus 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
