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On May 6 of this year, 15 US Food and Drug Administration agents with flak jackets, backed up by a batch of county policemen with guns at the ready, surrounded the clinic of Dr. Jonathan Wright i ...
The US scientist feted as the co-discoverer of HIV the virus associated with AIDS has been found guilty of "scientific misconduct". ...
The General Medical Council, which disciplines doctors, has made a first move toward introducing a system for dealing with doctors who are rude or incompetent but not guilty of professional miscon ...
Many advertisements for drugs in the medical literature are misleading and could lead to improper prescribing, said a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine. ...
About 88 per cent of elderly people in nursing homes are being given antipsychotic drugs inappropriately, researchers have discovered after visiting 28 homes in Glasgow. ...
A legal petition to stop growth hormone trials among children has been served in the US. The National Institutes of Health has been charged with abuse of children and the violation of regulations ...
An American company producing pharmaceutical equipment has agreed to plead guilty to committing what the Lancet (23 October 1993) has termed "the largest case of health fraud ever handled by the F ...
Americans given vaccines at a number of worksites may be at risk of infections from needles being reused or improperly sterilized. ...
More than 100 pharmacists in the US have been arrested following the uncovering of a nationwide drug diversion operation. The arrests are believed to be the most extensive crackdown on prescripti ...
