29 September 2010 A report in CPM’s People’s Democracy focuses on clinical trials on human subjects in India. It says there have been reports about deaths of trial subjects in AIIMS in 2008, and gross ethical violations have been alleged in trials of a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer among adolescent girls in Andhra Pradesh […]
Panel May Clear Cervical Cancer Vaccine Trials
By: Joe C. Mathew, New Delhi 28 September 2010 The three-member expert committee of the health ministry may give a clean chit to the agencies that conducted observational clinical trials on the safety and efficacy of cervical cancer vaccines marketed by global drug majors GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Merck in the country. The studies, independently initiated […]
India has one fourth of global cervical cancer patients
By: Ashok Kumar, Indian Express 24 September 2010 New Delhi: A survey, recently conducted by the American Cancer Society (ACS) in five municipal wards of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), found that a startling 90 per cent of the women are completely ignorant or have alarmingly little knowledge of cervical cancer, a disease that is […]
Gardasil Research Targets Girls from Vulnerable Communities
By: N B Sarojini and Anjali Shenoi 12 September 2010 During July and August 2009, the Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat governments, in association with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), launched what they described as a ‘demonstration project’ for vaccination against cervical cancer. Vaccines against […]
More Infant Deaths Linked with Vaccines
By: Shailvee Sharda, The Times of India 17 September 2010 LUCKNOW: Death of infants in Ghaziabad and that of a newborn in Ghazipur district kept the health department officials on their toes on Thursday. All three deaths were linked with vaccination. While a newborn died within 24 hours of receiving BCG shot in Ghazipur, twin-sisters […]