By: Mahim Pretap Singh, published in ‘The Hindu’ 14 October 2010 Activists concerned over commercial ICMR investigations on side effects and ethical issues are still on. BHOPAL: The controversial anti-cervical cancer vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, trials of which were suspended by the Indian government earlier this year, are slowly expanding their presence in Madhya Pradesh […]
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Trial Errors, Editorial in 'The Indian Express'
29 September 2010 A report in CPM’s People’s Democracy focuses on clinical trials on human subjects in India. It says there have been reports about deaths of trial subjects in AIIMS in 2008, and gross ethical violations have been alleged in trials of a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer among adolescent girls in Andhra Pradesh […]
Panel May Clear Cervical Cancer Vaccine Trials
By: Joe C. Mathew, New Delhi 28 September 2010 The three-member expert committee of the health ministry may give a clean chit to the agencies that conducted observational clinical trials on the safety and efficacy of cervical cancer vaccines marketed by global drug majors GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Merck in the country. The studies, independently initiated […]
India has one fourth of global cervical cancer patients
By: Ashok Kumar, Indian Express 24 September 2010 New Delhi: A survey, recently conducted by the American Cancer Society (ACS) in five municipal wards of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), found that a startling 90 per cent of the women are completely ignorant or have alarmingly little knowledge of cervical cancer, a disease that is […]
Gardasil Research Targets Girls from Vulnerable Communities
By: N B Sarojini and Anjali Shenoi 12 September 2010 During July and August 2009, the Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat governments, in association with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), launched what they described as a ‘demonstration project’ for vaccination against cervical cancer. Vaccines against […]
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