Daily Mail United Kingdom By Simon Neville Last updated at 3:10 AM on 3rd August 2011 Hundreds of young women given smear tests on the advice of GPs are having their test samples rejected by bureaucratic clinics – because they are under 25. Patients and GPs are becoming increasingly frustrated at the zero tolerance approach […]
Global Mercury Treaty May Include Ban on Mercury in Medicine
PR Newswire Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD) SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – CoMeD – On Friday, July 22, 2011, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) distributed a revised text for its comprehensive global treaty on mercury. Advocates for mercury-free drugs were gratified to see pharmaceuticals listed in “Annex C (Mercury-added product […]
Investigating Viruses in Cells Used to Make Vaccines; and Evaluating the Potential Threat Posed by Transmission of Viruses to Humans
FDA Vaccines Blood & Biologics Principal Investigator: Arifa S. Khan, PhD Office / Division / Lab: OVRR / DVP / LR General Overview The emergence of pathogenic virus infections like influenza and HIV have created an urgent need for new vaccines. Virus-based vaccines are made in living cells (cell substrates). Some manufacturers are investigating the […]
Adventitious Agents and Vaccines
CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Panel Summary from the 2000 Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Philip R. Krause Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, USA A discussion of adventitious agents and vaccines is pertinent in the context of emerging infectious diseases. Many novel vaccines are produced in animal cell substrates, and emerging infectious diseases […]
U.S. Pharmaceutical Companies Testing Drugs on India’s Poor
New America Media, Interview, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Aug 01, 2011 U.S. pharmaceutical companies have moved their operations overseas in the past decade, testing their drugs on poor people in such lands as Russia, China, Brazil and Romania. It is a $30 billion business, and today around 105 countries are allowing such large corporations as Merck […]
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