Look out for the January edition of Ms magazine. They’re running a special feature in which leading feminists offer their thoughts and suggestions on how our new president can improve the lot of women at home and overseas. I was honored to contribute a paragraph or two myself!
Also this month, the History Channel is re-airing [...]
The French-language edition of my book, The Body Hunters, has been awarded the 2008 Prescrire prize for books on medicine and pharmaceuticals! Every year, the nonprofit journal Prescrire awards a handful of books among the many it reviews for the prize. My understanding is that The Body Hunters was one among five chosen from around [...]
ABCNews.com featured a story on a problematic Glaxo clinical trial in Argentina (and quotes me a few times,badly–the last time I do a phone interview for a print piece?!). The allegation is coercion and lack of informed consent. The piece doesn’tpoint out one of the major factors of the story, which is that thevaccine GSK [...]
Some like to say that people have “right” to participate in clinical trials. People have a right to proven care, not to experiments. Trials are risky for subjects, which is often the whole point of doing the trial. A new review shows the extent.
In a survey of 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and [...]
Today’s TIME magazine ran a feature on the clinical trials boom in India. It’s a good one, and not only because it quotes me at both the top and bottom of the piece! Check it out here.
My critical review of Lara Santoro’s book on international health journalism appears in The Lancet sometime this month. Link will be forthcoming. In other news from The Lancet, a new study found that 6 weeks of daily nevirapine given to the breast-fed babies of HIV-positive mothers reduced the babies’ risk of getting the virus from [...]
My opinion piece on the FDA’s scrapping of the Declaration of Helsinki, and with it adequate protection for the human rights and safety of clinical trials subjects in the developing world, appeared in The Nation online a couple weeks ago. Check it out here.
Late last month, a small notice in the Federal Register announced that after more than thirty years, the FDA will summarily excise the World Medical Association’s “Declaration of Helsinki,” the internationally recognized gold-standard for principles of ethical medical research, from its codes. It’s a shocking departure, and one that has hardly made a dent in [...]
There have been seven foreign language translations of both CRUDE and THE BODY HUNTERS, but until now, none of my books has been available in Spanish. Now, at long last, 451 Editores will be publishing a Spanish edition of The Body Hunters, translated by Ricardo García. I’m not sure when the publication date is, but [...]
The sixth foreign-language translation of CRUDE will be released this week. The Dutch version is called “Ongeraffineerd,” which I love for being so very much longer than the English version.
Apparently, there’s been a lot of interest in the book in Holland. A magazine called Greenpeace Krant, with a circulation of 500,000, is featuring the book, [...]
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