By Joe Mathew, New Delhi A Union health ministry probe has revealed that pharmaceutical majors conducting clinical trials in India have not given compensation to majority of the volunteers who died during the trials. Of the 671 deaths that were reported in 2010, the ministry has evidence of just three cases of compensation. The ministry […]
Are GlaxoSmithKline Japan Putting Children At Danger With Paxil Trial?
By Robert Fiddaman Some of you may know that I’ve been closely following the Paxil Clinical Trial in Japan. The trial, now completed, was labelled, “Clinical Evaluation of Efficacy and Safety of Paxil Tablets in Children and Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder: Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Parallel Group Study.” I wasn’t the only one voicing my concerns […]
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 […]
Trial, and many errors
The Times of India Rema Nagarajan, TNN, Apr 23, 2011, 06.42am IST About 14,000 girls, aged between 10 and 14 years in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh were vaccinated with the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine as part of a study on the efficacy of the vaccine against cervical cancer last year. These girls […]
Fraudulent Medical Research Could Affect Your Diagnosis
By Dr. Sherri Tenpenny The press has led us to believe that the recall of a medical research paper represents a rare, media-worthy event. Case in point: the week-long blitz announcing the retraction of a single, disputed paper, published in The Lancet in 1998. By comparison, the retraction of more than 100 papers by two […]
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