Reported by: Patricia McDonagh in the “Belfast Telegraph” 20 August 2010 Suspicions that vaccine trials had taken place on vulnerable Irish children — many of whom were in state care — first surfaced in the early 1990s. As the current decade dawned, former residents of children’s homes began to publicly raise concerns that they had […]
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Firms Hype New Drugs, says Damning Industry Report
Reported by: John von Radowitz in the “Irish Examiner” 18 August 2010 DRUG companies were accused yesterday of conning the public by hyping up patented medicines with little new to offer while downplaying their side-effects. An estimated 85% of new drugs offer few if any new benefits while having the potential to cause serious harm […]
DTP vaccines sealed after 2 child deaths
By: Shimla 16 December 2010 After two children reportedly died in Hamirpur and Kullu districts on receiving DPT vaccine injections, the state health department has sealed the batch of the vaccine and sent it for examination to Central Research Institute, Kasauli. Director Health Services Dr Vinod Pathak said batch number 14037B09 of the vaccine has […]
India cannot afford to use vaccines that are not cost effective
By: Jacob Puliyel 27 October 2010 Developing countries must spend their budgets wisely to save as many lives as possible. Your article about anti-vaccination scares “spilling over into the developing world, where they are threatening to derail global vaccination programmes” failed to present a balanced view of the situation (Why fear of vaccination is spelling […]
462 deaths related to testing of experimental drugs on patients in India till mid-2010 alone
Posted by admin on Savarth 21 October 2010 Deaths related to drug testing in humans are going exponentially high in India as the country is becoming a choice destination for pharmaceutical giants to conducts clinical studies of experimental drugs on real-time patients. The number of deaths during clinical studies has been steadily increasing and as […]
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