Vaccine-companies-accused-of-manslaughter
PARIS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - French authorities have opened a formal investigation into two managers from drugs groups GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur over a vaccination campaign in the 1990s, a judicial source said late on Thursday.
Judge Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy also opened an investigation for manslaughter against Sanofi Pasteur MSD, a joint venture between Sanofi Aventis and [...]
Acupuncture improves fertility
Acupuncture has been associated with statistically and clinically significant improvements in pregnancy rates resulting from the embryo transfer process, according to the results of a systematic case study* published online February 7 in the British Medical Journal.
Authors of the report, from University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore theorized that acupuncture may mediate [...]
Caffeine Bad For Diabetes
With diabetes rates soaring (in the US, the incidence increased by 23% in the 10 years leading up to 2005), the prevalence (that is, the number of people living with the disease) went up 62% in the same period. It’s just been announced that diabetes-related medical and economic costs in the United States hit $174 [...]
Magnesium Cuts Risk of Cerebral Palsy in Half
One of the agonizing consequences of birth can be cerebral palsy. This is particularly liable to occur with clumsy-handed interventions by obstetricians, especially forceps delivery, but often happens due to mechanical difficulties: if you’ve ever seen the deformation of the fetal head needed to get it down the vagina, you would gasp in amazement. One [...]
