By Leigh Phillips, euobserver.com BRUSSELS – The European Parliament has refused to sign off on the accounts of the EU agency responsible for making sure all medicines in Europe are safe and effective for its citizens to use, accusing the body of being too close to Big Pharma. The European Medicines Agency’s reputation was further bludgeoned […]
Merck’s improved Gardasil could cause a stir
Source: EP Vantage (originally posted 30 Sept 2011) Improved Gardasil? As the global debate about the cost effectiveness – and in some places ethics – of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines rumbles on, Merck & Co has been quietly working away on a 21,000 patient phase III program for an improved version of its blockbuster vaccine Gardasil. Relatively […]
Holly Springs Novartis plant preparing for pandemic
By John Murawski, HOLLY SPRINGS – Pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Monday declared its $1 billion vaccine production plant, the first such facility of its kind, ready to inoculate Americans against the next global pandemic outbreak. The sprawling laboratory is more than four years in the making. It is designed to supply emergency vaccine to one […]
Doctor Alleges Monopoly on Vaccine
By Cheryl Armstrong, Courthouse News Service NEWARK (CN) – In an antitrust class action, a doctor says Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest producer of vaccines, uses its monopoly on meningococcal vaccines in the United States to raise prices and crush competition. Sanofi has “an overwhelming 93 percent market share” of the meningococcal vaccine market in […]
Merck – Too Big to Prosecute?
By the Alliance for Natural Health. There is a surprising reason why the government won’t go after drug companies for serious crimes. It is because government programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration would then be barred from doing business with them! In 1999 the FDA approved Vioxx, a drug created by Merck and […]
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