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Re: Medical Scandal (23rd Dec 12 at 11:20pm UTC)
Thalidomide scandal: Twenty cases identified in past five years

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Re: Medical Scandal (5th Jan 13 at 11:27pm UTC)
Sweeping reforms of the National Health Service will be demanded by a public inquiry into one of the worst scandals in NHS history.

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Re: Medical Scandal (31st Jan 13 at 11:07pm UTC)
Dangers of toxic hip implants used in Britain kept secret for years

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Re: Medical Scandal (7th Mar 13 at 10:50pm UTC)
Drug that steals women's lives: It's more addictive than heroin, with horrifying side-effects. So why, 50 years after its launch, is Valium still given to millions?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2289311/Valium-Its-addictive-heroin-horrifying-effects-given-millions.html#ixzz2MtgPCj35

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Re: Medical Scandal (20th Apr 13 at 10:40pm UTC)
http://www.pharmatimes.com/mobile/13-04-19/UK_pharma_scientist_jailed_over_trial_fraud.aspx

A UK-based pharma scientist has been sentenced to three months in prison for altering pre-clinical trial data designed to support applications to perform human trials.

Steven Eaton was found guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff’s Court in March following a prosecution under the Good Laboratory Practice Regulations 1999 - the first time the MHRA has successfully used these regulations to bring a prosecution.

The case came about when the US pharma firm Aptuit informed the MHRA that they had identified serious irregularities in pre-clinical data generated to support human clinical trials and the registration of new medicines.

The irregularities involved changing or providing false analytical data that would be used to determine the concentration of medicine that could be given to clinical trial subjects used to assess the safety and efficacy of a new medicine.

The MHRA’s investigation into the case found that an Aptuit researcher – Steven Eaton, 47 from Cambridgeshire - had selectively reported analytical data over a number of years, dating back to 2003. Eaton worked at the company’s drug discovery and development site in Riccarton, near Edinburgh, before being found out.

During this period he selectively reported data which was used to assess whether analytical methods were working properly or to assess the concentration of the drug in blood. The data manipulation ensured an experiment was deemed successful when in fact it had failed.

Eaton been working on pre-clinical trials in animals to assess the efficacy of new treatments on behalf of several major drug companies, including AstraZeneca and Roche. Aptuit had been carrying out the work on their behalf.

Sentencing him this week, Sheriff Michael O’Grady QC, said that a three month prison term was the longest sentence he could give Eaton under the Good Laboratory Practice Regulations.

He said: “I feel that my sentencing powers in this are wholly inadequate. You failed to test the drugs properly – you could have caused cancer patients unquestionable harm. Why someone who is as highly educated and as experienced as you would embark on such a course of conduct is inexplicable.”

The MHRA said this Eaton’s actions had wider consequences, and led to the review of many hundreds of safety studies assessing the impact of the data manipulation to ensure that the compromised data was not used in future submissions to relevant authorities without their knowledge.

Gerald Heddell, MHRA’s director of inspection, enforcement and standards said: “Mr Eaton’s actions directly impacted on the validity of clinical trials and delayed a number of medicines coming to market, including one to treat depression. The sentence sends a message that we will not hesitate to prosecute those whose actions have the potential to harm public health.”
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Re: Medical Scandal (28th Apr 13 at 9:45pm UTC)
Health warning: 100,000 a year dying from taking dodgy medicines bought online
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Desperate patients try to save time and money by purchasing cheap drugs through internet pharmacies rather than waiting to see GPs

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/health-warning-100000-year-dying-1852268#ixzz2RnSROzIu

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Re: Medical Scandal (18th Jun 13 at 9:36am UTC)
Exposed: Edward Erin, the doctor whose faked asthma drug test results proved fatal
Fabricated research was not discovered until Edward Erin tried to poison his girlfriend

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exposed-edward-erin-the-doctor-whose-faked-asthma-drug-test-results-proved-fatal-8662548.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (22nd Jun 13 at 9:34am UTC)
Pharmaceutical scandal: firms boast of profits on drugs that cost 'pennies’

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Re: Medical Scandal (23rd Jun 13 at 10:58am UTC)
NHS chief 'offered bribe to hush up death of my baby': Father's shock at scandal-hit boss's £3,000 cash deal

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Re: Medical Scandal (17th Sep 13 at 7:57am UTC)
Unfavourable results from medical trials are being withheld, MPs warn
Practice skews information available to doctors because trials that show new drugs in best light are more likely to be published

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/17/medical-trial-results-withheld-mps-report
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Re: Medical Scandal (8th Nov 13 at 11:59am UTC)
China’s pharma scandal and the ethics of the global drug market

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Re: Medical Scandal (13th Nov 13 at 10:55am UTC)
Experts with links to drugs industry 'hyped swine flu'

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Re: Medical Scandal (24th May 14 at 8:46am UTC)
NHS drugs raid finds medicines diverted into blackmarket: regulator
Fraudsters are infiltrating the NHS drugs supply chain and diverting medicines to street drug dealers and illegal websites, regulators found

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Re: Medical Scandal (1st Jul 14 at 10:14am UTC)
NHS scandal chiefs launch 'reputation management' firm
Shamed health watchdog chiefs accused of 'sick joke' as they launch new firm advising others on how to protect their reputations

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10934404/NHS-scandal-chiefs-launch-reputation-management-firm.html
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