Pharmabiz.com Suja Nair Shirodkar, Mumbai Saturday, June 18, 2011, 08:00 Hrs [IST] With a view to protect patient related information and preserve exclusive intellectual property rights of the pharma companies the Central Information Commission (CIC) recently passed a decision acknowledging exemption from disclosure of information on clinical trials under Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. The […]
Third phase studies on HPV vac to continue despite expert panel finding faults in trials of AP, Gujarat
By Joseph Alexander, New Delhi Notwithstanding the findings by the expert team about deficiencies in the trials of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, the health Ministry has allowed the ongoing third phase of the clinical trials in India, but without further vaccinations. Turning down the demand by many public interest […]
Cervarix Vaccine Programme to Cost UK Government £5.5 billion over 73 Years Before Targeted Annual Number of Women’s Lives are Saved
By Leslie Carol Botha Let’s bypass the usual conversation on arbitrating a price on the value of a person’s life. The Cervarix programme in the United Kingdom may become bankrupt before even saving one woman’s life from cervical cancer. Freda Birrell, Secretary of SANE Vax Inc. has been communicating with government officials in the United […]
HPV vaccine issue: Brinda Karat questions role of ICMR
By Aarti Dhar Writes to Ghulan Nabi Azad seeking answers: Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat has questioned the role of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in the controversial Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine post-licensure observational study and pointed out that some officials of the institute acted as “partisans of non-governmental organisation PATH and […]
HPV Vaccine: Groups Demand Action
By Nimisha Jaiswal and Ishika Chawia Delhi “ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) is party to the agenda of a foreign NGO to promote the interests of the manufacturing brand. This brings the ethics of ICMR into question,” said Brinda Karat, Rajya Sabha MP and CPM leader. “We demand that the Union health ministry take […]
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