By Ed Silverman Health Department workers in West Australia have received $745,000 worth of gifts, business class flights and hotel accommodations from drug and device makers, many of which sell meds and equipment to area hospitals, The West Australian reports. According to documents revealed in Parliament, between last July and April 6, there 259 instances […]
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Call for body to monitor vaccines
By Julia Medow AUSTRALIA’S response to an outbreak of convulsions among children who received the flu vaccine last year was plagued by delayed reporting, communication breakdowns and insufficient data on immunisation rates, an independent review has found. Former chief medical officer John Horvath has called for major changes to the way vaccines are monitored in […]
How the Drug Giants and a Lone Academic Went to War
By Jo Revill Every medicine prescribed in Britain is offered to patients only after years collecting data from clinical trials to show a drug’s safety and effectiveness. Increasingly, medical research in the UK is a collaborative effort between big pharmaceutical companies and universities. Although there will be a commercial contract between the two, much of […]
Are American children to be used in medical experiments to test anthrax vaccine?
By Tara Green (NaturalNews) The highly controversial and potentially lethal anthrax vaccine may be tested on US children if the federal government gets its way. Although adverse event reports related to the vaccine among adult test subjects have included hospitalization, disability and even death, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is exploring […]
HPV test beats Pap for cervical cancer screening
By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer Two big studies suggest possible new ways to screen healthy people for cervical or prostate cancers, but a third disappointed those hoping for a way to detect early signs of deadly ovarian tumors. Researchers found: _For women 30 and over, a test for the virus, HPV, is better than […]
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