By Pushpa Narayan CHENNAI: The state government will soon pay mothers who get their newborns vaccinated as per the immunization schedule. This will help the health department track the health of mothers and their children in the below poverty line ( BPL) category and bring down maternal and infant deaths. The scheme is perhaps the […]
When Indian doctors open their mouths….
By Hilary Butler What happens when paediatricians take a look at the disease incidence in their own country and decide that certain vaccines are not justified on epidemiological grounds? Nothing, So long as they keep their mouths shut. What happens when they look into the use of certain vaccines, and find that reactions are being […]
Indians sitting ducks as drug trials turn fatal
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 […]
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 […]
Child dies after vaccination, doctors face action
Two Circles.net India By IANS, Submitted by admin4 on 22 July 2011 – 12:20pm Lucknow : Action has been recommended against a deputy chief medical officer and another doctor after an infant died and two others took ill following administration of measles vaccine in Uttar Pradesh, an official said Friday. While nine-month-old Shivansh died Thursday […]
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