By Amrita Tripathi, CNN-IBN New Delhi: As the five-in-one or pentavalent vaccine is set to roll out in Kerala and Tamil Nadu – chosen because these states have the best immunisation programs in place – CNN-IBN finds another vaccine controversy is brewing. There are several points of criticism – one, that this vaccine isn’t cost-effective. Two, that it’s […]
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 […]
3-month-old dies after vaccination
By Ahnedabad Mirror Bureau Victim’s father Kamlesh Patel alleges that the rotavirus vaccine drops given to his daughter by the family doctor killed her; scared of being attacked, doc calls police. A three-month-old girl died a few hours after she was administered rotavirus vaccine drops on Friday evening. The father of the victim filed a […]
‘Clinical trials of HPV vaccine conducted on tribal girls’
By Staff Reporter for ‘The Hindu’ KHAMMAM: Tribal woman P Venkatamma, mother of Sarita, the girl who died after receiving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Duggmugudem mandal last year, has appealed to the authorities concerned to make the postmortem report of her daughter accessible to her. Venkatamma along with several tribal women participated in a […]
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