[SaneVax: Is it any wonder clinical trials in India come under suspicion when they are conducted on the mentally ill or the underprivileged members of society? One has to wonder why legislation to protect the participants in clinical trials has been allowed to remain ‘under discussion’ for over eight years.] Why clinical trials evoke suspicion […]
Coercive and Mandatory Immunisation: how ethical is this policy?
By Judy Wilyman – PhD candidate [Note: The following was re-printed with the author’s permission. It was originally distributed in poster form and presented at the National Health Promotional Conference in Perth in 2009.] Vaccination is a medical procedure for healthy individuals and not sick individuals. It is a procedure that injects weakened pathogens and chemical substances […]
Drug Rep Says Ethics Made Him a Target
By Nestor F. Sebastian FLEMINGTON, N.J. (CN) – Merck & Co. ousted a vaccine specialist who says he refused to illegally market certain pharmaceutical drugs to doctors, the man claims in Hunterdon County Court. David Turkheimer says he was fired several months after his yearly performance-review meeting with district business manager John Connelly. At that […]