By: Martha Rosenberg 08 December 2010 Prescription drug advertising can work miracles. With Vioxx, it got 20 million people to pay five times more for a pain reliever that doubled their risk of heart attack. But advertising may not be working with Merck’s Gardasil and GSK’s Cervarix, vaccines which protect against Human papillomavirus […]
British Researcher Wakefield Defends Link Between Vaccine and Autism
ABC News Health British Researcher Holds True to His Study Despite Claims of Falsified Data By LARA SALAHI Jan. 17, 2011 Controversial British surgeon Dr. Andrew Wakefield today defended allegations by authors that his research citing a possible link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism were outright “fraudulent.” “There was no fraud, […]
GlaxoSmithKline Influences Experts to Boost HPV Sales
By: Christina England 15 November 2010 A few days ago, the Daily Express ran an article which stated that cancer expert Professor Peter Sasieni recommended phasing out smear tests in favour of HPV testing. The opening statement in Victoria Fletcher’s article ‘New Cancer Check To Phase Out Smear Tests’ (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/210613/New-cancer-check-to-phase-out-smear-tests)read : “SMEAR tests for cervical […]
South Africans develop tool to detect cervical cancer
By: Melody Brandon 05 November 2010 JOHANNESBURG (Xinhua) — A team of South African students from the University of The Witwatersrand (WITS) have used “biological Lego” to develop a tool that is hoped to detect cervical cancer. According to the South African department of Health, cancer of the cervix is the second most common […]
**Exclusive: GlaxoSmithKline and the Promotion of the Cervarix Vaccine
By: Bob Fiddaman 02 November 2010 As a writer I am sent many links to news stories, some I have already covered, others have been covered many times by far greater writer’s than I. Imagine my surprise then when I, along with a few other writer’s, activists, campaigners, was sent a promotional DVD for GlaxoSmithKline’s […]
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