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Dodgy research – we knew it!
Anyone who heard to this morning's Today programme on the $3 billion fine imposed on GlaxoSmithKline for manipulating the results of trials to hype up the success rate of their drugs and conceal dodgy side effects, may not be particularly surprised - but may be somewhat …
Visiting the Olympics? Get vaccinated…
Following on neatly from my blog yesterday about the murky politics of health, a post came through this morning from Christina England at VacTruth. Christina points out that GlaxoSmithKline, one of the worlds leading manufacturers of drugs, including vaccinations, are a major …
Governments Struggle to Convince
Health authorities in the west may fulminate about the public's scepticism about their pronouncements (the MMR vaccination saga, for example) but they could take comfort from the fact that the Chinese government is having an even worse time. An article in the Boston Globe last …
Peanut Allergy – and its Society-wide Ripples
How has peanut allergy crept up on 21st century children? In 1997 there were 416,000 peanut allergic children in the USA; in 2009 there were 4.5 million. This is a thousand-fold increase in a mere 12 years.... And the numbers are still rising. Rising almost as fast is the …