Google.com Associated Press January 13, 2011 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Drugmaker Merck & Co. unexpectedly halted a late-stage trial for a potential blood-thinner and said Thursday it would stop giving the drug — seen as a key product in its development pipeline — to stroke victims in separate study. The Whitehouse Station, N.J., company’s shares plunged […]
The Age-Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists
New England Journal of Medicine
Gregory A. Poland, M.D., and Robert M. Jacobson, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2011; 364:97-99
January 13, 2011
Since the introduction of the first vaccine, there has been opposition to vaccination. In the 19th century, despite clear evidence of benefit, routine inoculation with cowpox to protect people against smallpox was hindered by a burgeoning antivaccination movement. The result was ongoing smallpox outbreaks and needless deaths. In 1910, Sir William Osler publicly expressed his frustration with the irrationality of the antivaccinationists by offering to take 10 vaccinated and 10 unvaccinated people with him into the next severe smallpox epidemic, to care for the latter when they inevitably succumbed to the disease, and ultimately to arrange for the funerals of those among them who would die (see the Medical Notes section of the Dec. 22, 1910, issue of the Journal). A century later, smallpox has been eradicated through vaccination, but we are still contending with antivaccinationists.
Glaxo Whistle-Blower Lawsuit: Bad Medicine
CBS
60 Minutes
January 2, 2011
Scott Pelley Reports Interviews Whistle-Blower Cheryl Eckard
Of all the things that you trust every day, you want to believe your prescription medicine is safe and effective. The pharmaceutical industry says that it follows the highest standards for quality. But in November, we found out just how much could go wrong at one of the world’s largest drug makers. A subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated drugs.
HPV 4 Gardasil Exceeds All other Vaccine-Induced Abortion/Stillbirth Events
MedAlerts Blog entry for November 2010 By Steven Rubin It has been suggested that the H1N1 Flu vaccine causes miscarriages (see, for example, here, here, and here). This month, I want to see if the claim is supported by VAERS data. How do we determine whether a VAERS event resulted in a miscarriage? VAERS uses […]
France, UK cracking down on advertising for HPV vaccines
Beasley Allen January 13th, 2011 by Wendi Lewis Government health agencies in France and the United Kingdom are cracking down on the manufacturers of HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, saying the companies are falsely advertising their products. According to a report in the American Chronicle, vaccine watchdog organization SANE VAX has been following the investigation […]
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