Drug firms' lobby tactics revealed
Documents show how companies try to get new medicines fast-tracked
Multinational drug companies have been lobbying ministers in an attempt to subvert the independent appraisal process and get their expensive new medicines approved for large-scale use in the NHS, the Guardian can reveal.
Thursday September 28, 2006
Research shows link between acne treatment and depression
September 19, 2006 The Guardian
The father of Liam Grant, 19, from Dublin, is suing Roche in an attempt to prove Roaccutane caused his death.
Mr Grant - also called Liam - has spent £340,000 on studies, including one published by the American Academy of
Psychiatry, which scanned the brains of 15 people on Roaccutane and 15 on other acne medication.
Legal challenge plan over GM rice
Friends of the Earth has said it will start a legal challenge against the Food Standards Agency (FSA) over the
sale of GM rice in UK supermarkets.
INSIDE INCARNATION CHILDREN CENTER
As the debate over AIDS-drug trials at Columbia's Incarnation Children Center grows louder, a
former ICC employee reveals what she saw. Interview with child care worker. By Liam Scheff
World Without Cancer - The Story of Vitamin B17
G. Edward Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease-like scurvy or pellagra-aggravated by the lack of an
essential food compound in modern man's diet. That substance is vitamin B17.
The Linking Pathogen in Neurosystemic Diseases
Several strains of mycoplasma have been "engineered" to become more dangerous. They are now being blamed
for AIDS, cancer, CFS, MS, CJD and other neurosystemic diseases.
