The Tribune New Delhi In last 4 yrs, 1,725 persons have died in clinical trials; weak law compounds risks Aditi Tandon/TNS Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 7 For the first time since 2010 when six tribal girls from Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh involved in the clinical trials of anti-cervical cancer HPV vaccine died, the […]
Experts urge cervical cancer vaccine switch
The Guardian Using Gardasil made by Sanofi Pasteur MSD instead of Cervarix could save NHS millions of pounds says study Sarah Boseley, health editor guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 August 2011 23.30 BST Switching from the cervical cancer vaccine now in use by the NHS to the one used by the US and most of Europe could […]
Scandal of the labs that refuse to check under-25s smear tests
Daily Mail United Kingdom By Simon Neville Last updated at 3:10 AM on 3rd August 2011 Hundreds of young women given smear tests on the advice of GPs are having their test samples rejected by bureaucratic clinics – because they are under 25. Patients and GPs are becoming increasingly frustrated at the zero tolerance approach […]
U.S. Pharmaceutical Companies Testing Drugs on India’s Poor
New America Media, Interview, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Aug 01, 2011 U.S. pharmaceutical companies have moved their operations overseas in the past decade, testing their drugs on poor people in such lands as Russia, China, Brazil and Romania. It is a $30 billion business, and today around 105 countries are allowing such large corporations as Merck […]
Hospitalized girls prompt Gardasil recall
Fierce Pharma February 11, 2009 — 11:41am ET | By Tracy Staton A bolt out of the blue for Merck’s Gardasil, with two 14-year-old girls in Spain hospitalized after receiving the human papillomavirus vaccine. Health authorities in Spain have now withdrawn an entire batch–nearly 76,000 doses–of the shot. Both girls developed convulsions and at least […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 96
- 97
- 98
- 99
- 100
- …
- 240
- Next Page »