How to Heal the Ailing FDA
Six spot-on suggestions from Steve Nissen, MD to the Obama administration.
Six spot-on suggestions from Steve Nissen, MD to the Obama administration.
Congratulations, John–you have really outdone yourself this time! You sure have a commitment to service. I don’t disagree. But who have you been serving? And Nuremberg 2.0 awaits. One more co-conspirator named in this blog. School of Pharmacy Alumnus Elected to National Academy of Medicine October 21, 2021 Retired Col. John D. Grabenstein, R.Ph., Ph.D.,…
It is only one study. But it was carefully done, used interesting methods, and it tried to explore issues that have rarely been studied. Researchers from the University of Maryland studied students who had new symptoms of influenza to see if infectious flu virus spread during coughs, sneezing, or regular breathing. They looked at nasal…
A longer report was published in Haaretz, with an excerpt below: … In December 2008, the [Israeli Medical Association] investigative committee published a report, which found grave fault with the way in which soldiers were recruited for the experiment, and the unscrupulous methods for achieving the soldiers’ consent – which included failure to inform them…
From Fierce Pharma: AstraZeneca was humming right along with its partnered COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford before a sudden trial hold threw its plans into disarray. So what does that uncertainty mean for AstraZeneca’s expectant manufacturing partners on the shot? For at least one, it could be no issue at all. Despite a…
Paul Waldie and Grant Robertson of the Globe and Mail, Canada have published a detailed investigative piece on how vaccines have been transformed into a huge industry in the space of a few years. Thirty-two percent growth per year has followed the expanding use of yearly flu vaccines (and the expanding population groups for whom…
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ No need to run and get that flu shot, the one that is reported to be only 10% effective this year. Yes, the same flu shot that will get me 10% off my grocery bill, if I get vaccinated at the supermarket. When you consider that a shot this year would likely make shots…