By Tom Paulson This week, several “invitation-only” meetings will be held in Seattle featuring hundreds of leading experts in global health from around the world. They all revolve around the Pacific Health Summit, which starts Wednesday. One of those confabs orbiting the summit is the Global Health Research Congress, which starts today. Launched in Seattle […]
UNICEF publishes vaccine prices for first time
By Lynne Taylor For the first time, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has published the prices it pays manufacturers for vaccines. UNICEF is the world’s biggest buyer of children’s medicines, and vaccines is its largest procurement activity, worth $757 million last year. The new policy brings it into line with other procurement agencies such […]
Vaccine Mania: The Relationship between Government and Pharmaceutical Companies
By the Alliance for Natural Health The vaccination question is a hotly debated topic, even in the natural health community. It doesn’t help when vaccine companies have blatant conflicts of interest and the studies supporting their safety may be fraudulent! What we all can agree upon is the need to keep crony capitalism out of […]