The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9813, Page 288, 28 January 2012 (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60125-1 “Academic publishers have become the enemies of science.” So wrote Dr Mike Taylor, a scientist at the UK’s University of Bristol. He, and many scientists like him, are angry that publishers are supporting the Research Works Act (RWA), a controversial Bill before the US Congress. The […]
Time to end the worst practice in medicine
By William Campbell Douglass II, MD Dear Friend, Next time you run out of toilet paper, reach for the nearest medical journal. In one of the greatest scandals of modern medicine, Big Pharma is using ghostwriters and shady third-party companies to secretly buy its way into the pages of what are supposed to be respectable […]
Government Pills
By Ronald Bailey Government expands on failure. All too often, government failure is treated as evidence that we need more government. Instead, government failure indicates that we should look for alternative results in the competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, the creation of the new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is a near perfect example of […]
EpiVax receives $458,000 NIH grant to develop universal influenza vaccine
By PBN staff PROVIDENCE – EpiVax Inc. said Tuesday it has received a $458,000, two-year grant to develop a universal influenza vaccine. “There is an urgent, unmet need for an influenza vaccine with greater potency and wider application to diverse flu viruses that can also be developed more rapidly than conventional influenza vaccines,” said Dr. […]
NIH should not be a pharmaceutical company
By Tevi Troy The National Institutes of Health recently announced that it would be engaging in a billion-dollar effort to encourage the development of new pharmaceutical therapies. The New York Times headline for this story sounded innocuous: “Federal Research Center Will Help Develop Medicines.” But not everyone is so sanguine about this effort. Fox News, […]
