Archive for May, 2007

Nigeria charges Pfizer for unethical Trovan trial

Nigerian authorities slapped criminal charges on Pfizer this month, alleging that the company’s infamous 1996 botched antibiotic trial there was “rash and negligent,” and endangered lives.
Some of the subjects in the trial died, others suffered permanent disability, and the prosecutors say it’s Pfizer’s fault for providing a too-low dose of its comparator drug. (Listen to [...]

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The Internationalist (an interview)

A short but pointed interview with me appears in The Internationalist this week, along with a cool watercolor portrait (!). Check it out at The Internationalist.

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