By: Shimla 16 December 2010 After two children reportedly died in Hamirpur and Kullu districts on receiving DPT vaccine injections, the state health department has sealed the batch of the vaccine and sent it for examination to Central Research Institute, Kasauli. Director Health Services Dr Vinod Pathak said batch number 14037B09 of the vaccine has […]
India cannot afford to use vaccines that are not cost effective
By: Jacob Puliyel 27 October 2010 Developing countries must spend their budgets wisely to save as many lives as possible. Your article about anti-vaccination scares “spilling over into the developing world, where they are threatening to derail global vaccination programmes” failed to present a balanced view of the situation (Why fear of vaccination is spelling […]
462 deaths related to testing of experimental drugs on patients in India till mid-2010 alone
Posted by admin on Savarth 21 October 2010 Deaths related to drug testing in humans are going exponentially high in India as the country is becoming a choice destination for pharmaceutical giants to conducts clinical studies of experimental drugs on real-time patients. The number of deaths during clinical studies has been steadily increasing and as […]
Trial Errors, Editorial in 'The Indian Express'
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 […]
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