By Linda A. Johnson MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) – Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer’s disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler’s diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it. Many could be on the market in five years or less. Contrast that with five years ago, […]
Research ethics require action and vigilance
Allen M. Hornblum is the author of Acres of Skin and Sentenced to Science and is working on a book dealing with institutionalized children as research test subjects. This month in the nation’s capital, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues heard testimony on human-subject protection in the aftermath of recent revelations that […]
A tablet a day keeps the patient at bay: the health hazards of prevention – vaccinations and pharmacoprophylaxis
BSEM conference 11th March 2011 ‘Do no harm! That’, said Dr David Freed, introducing the British Society of Environmental Medicine’s excellent conference which he had also organised, ‘is the charge put upon doctors when they qualify. But do they?’ The assumption is that the more medical care is available, the more good it will do […]
Health systems eye requiring influenza shots for workers
By Liz Zemba Registered nurse Sherri Adobato is accustomed to administering flu vaccine. When it came to her own health, she usually skipped the shot — until a co-worker, David P. Sechrist, fell victim to a deadly bout with the H1N1 virus. “I’m a nurse, and I never get the flu shot, even though I […]
Warning: GARDASIL DEATH TOLL RISING
By Barbara Hollingsworth Documents from the Food & Drug Administration obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine manufactured by Merck that FDA officials fast-tracked for approval in 2006, may not be not as safe as its industry and government backers assured the public it was. […]
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