What Doctors Don't Tell YouA family doctor can easily earn an extra £15,000 a year by enrolling their patients in a trial for a newly licensed drug. Unfortunately, the patient is not aware that he’s participating in a trial or that his doctor
Too many patients are being given chemotherapy, even when it is clear that the drugs have not been effective and they are near death. ...
The UK government seems determined to press ahead with planned extensions of water fluoridation schemes in the UK. This is despite many warnings and much evidence
Drug company sweeteners to doctors to encourage them to prescribe their products are to be outlawed under legislation due to come into force in 1994. ...
HOORAY FOR THE WHISTLEBLOWER: Court backs drug employee
An immunisation programme in India that included the DTP jab and three oral doses of the poliomyelitis vaccine has left thousands of children paralysed. ...
At first sight, it may seem obvious that before being expected to agree to what amounts to an invasion of one's body in other fields, a criminal offence that patients should be given the fullest p ...
A new form of inducement to doctors to prescribe drugs has been started in the US by two drug giants. Instead of the usual "conference" in the Bahamas, Upjohn and Eli Lilly are offering to indemni ...
Drug manufacturers very much work according to the maxim of 'Waste not, want not'. Take thalidomide, for instance - and, in fact, many people in developing nations still do.
Assurances from the UK Department of Health of the safety of the measles jab being given to all British school children is based on flimsy scientific data and assumptions, American counterparts ha ...
