Sex-for-prescription scandal engulfs Italy’s healthcare sector
An Italian drugs supplier bribed doctors and pharmacists across the country to issue bogus prescriptions in return for cash and sex with Colombian prostitutes, it has emerged.
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Gardasil gets safety seal of approval in Australian survey
Merck & Co’s cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil has received the safety thumbs-up by a major study published online in the British Medical Journal.
Read MoreNICE’s Rawlins questions dependence on RCTs
The chairman of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has suggested randomised controlled trials (RCTs) should no longer be seen as the be-all and end-all of clinical research.
Read MoreAIDS and cervical cancer pioneers scoop Nobel prize
Leading industry and academic figures have hailed this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine, which is shared for pivotal advances in AIDS/HIV and cervical cancer.
Read MorePaxil could make men infertile, researchers suggest
US scientists have claimed that one of the most commonly used selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, GlaxoSmithKline’s Seroxat/Paxil, causes serious DNA damage in sperm cells, according to the report in New Scientist.
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