Deadly Medicine || Vanity Fair

[Guest guest]

If the globalization of clinical trials for adult medications has

drawn little attention, foreign trials for children’s drugs have

attracted even less. The Argentinean province of Santiago del Estero,

with a population of nearly a million, is one of the country’s poorest.

In 2008 seven babies participating in drug testing in the

province suffered what the U.S. clinical-trials community refers to as

“an adverse event”: they died. The deaths occurred as the children took

part in a medical trial to test the safety of a new vaccine, Synflorix,

to prevent pneumonia, ear infections, and other pneumococcal diseases.

Developed by GlaxoKline, the world’s fourth-largest

pharmaceutical company in terms of global prescription-drug sales, the

new vaccine was intended to compete against an existing vaccine. In all,

at least 14 infants enrolled in clinical trials for the drug died during

the testing. Their parents, some illiterate, had their children signed up

without understanding that they were taking part in an experiment. Local

doctors who persuaded parents to enroll their babies in the trial

reportedly received $350 per child. The two lead investigators contracted

by Glaxo were fined by the Argentinean government. So was Glaxo, though

the company maintained that the mortality rate of the children “did not

exceed the rate in the regions and countries participating in the study.”

No independent group conducted an investigation or performed autopsies.

As it happens, the brother of the lead investigator in Santiago del

Estero was the Argentinean provincial health minister ...

In 2007, residents of a homeless shelter in Grudziadz, Poland, received

as little as $2 to take part in a flu-vaccine experiment. The subjects

thought they were getting a regular flu shot. They were not. At least 20

of them died.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/deadly-medicine-201101?currentPage=all

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start December 2 & 3, 2010 and

January 6 & 7

[Guest guest]

If the globalization of clinical trials for adult medications has

drawn little attention, foreign trials for children’s drugs have

attracted even less. The Argentinean province of Santiago del Estero,

with a population of nearly a million, is one of the country’s poorest.

In 2008 seven babies participating in drug testing in the

province suffered what the U.S. clinical-trials community refers to as

“an adverse event”: they died. The deaths occurred as the children took

part in a medical trial to test the safety of a new vaccine, Synflorix,

to prevent pneumonia, ear infections, and other pneumococcal diseases.

Developed by GlaxoKline, the world’s fourth-largest

pharmaceutical company in terms of global prescription-drug sales, the

new vaccine was intended to compete against an existing vaccine. In all,

at least 14 infants enrolled in clinical trials for the drug died during

the testing. Their parents, some illiterate, had their children signed up

without understanding that they were taking part in an experiment. Local

doctors who persuaded parents to enroll their babies in the trial

reportedly received $350 per child. The two lead investigators contracted

by Glaxo were fined by the Argentinean government. So was Glaxo, though

the company maintained that the mortality rate of the children “did not

exceed the rate in the regions and countries participating in the study.”

No independent group conducted an investigation or performed autopsies.

As it happens, the brother of the lead investigator in Santiago del

Estero was the Argentinean provincial health minister ...

In 2007, residents of a homeless shelter in Grudziadz, Poland, received

as little as $2 to take part in a flu-vaccine experiment. The subjects

thought they were getting a regular flu shot. They were not. At least 20

of them died.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/deadly-medicine-201101?currentPage=all

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start December 2 & 3, 2010 and

January 6 & 7