What Doctors Don't Tell YouMMR AND DR WAKEFIELD: Anyone spotted the hypocrisy?
Early amniocentesis the prenatal test for Down's syndrome is so dangerous that Dutch researchers may abandon their trials into the procedure because it is not "ethically justified" to continue. ...
BAD SCIENCE So many studies, so many flaws A full one-third of American scientists have been found guilty of serious misconduct while undertaking medical research over the last three years. Their misdeeds have included the falsification of data...
Antenatal ultrasound is widely used to detect major fetal abnormalities such as anencephaly. However, a recent editorial (BMJ,1997; 314: 918) questions its use in detecting less straightforward pr ...
A national advertising campaign for a chicken pox vaccine in Israel has triggered a furore among health officials. ...
Three trials of vaccines conducted in Ireland between 1962 and 1973 have been condemned as unethical by the Irish Minister for Health, Micheal Martin. ...
The drug manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb has been taken to task by The Lancet, the medical journal, for attempting to stop an independent trial into one of its drugs. ...
Prescribed tranquillisers are far more toxic, more addictive and kill more people in the UK than all the illegal class A drugs put together.
Pediatricians are prescribing growth hormone drugs to short children outside of the guidelines of the American Food and Drug Administration. Even though there is no scientific evidence that shows ...
Early in May, in a landmark decision, the British courts struck a blow for patient rights. The Court of Appeal held in favour of Ms S, a woman who had been forcibly given a caesarean section agai ...
