does almost nothing to police the financial conflicts of doctors who conduct clinical trials of drugs and medical devices in human subjects, government investigators are reporting.
Moreover, the investigators say, agency officials told them that trying to protect patients from such conflicts was not worth the effort.
In 42 percent of clinical trials, the agency did not receive forms disclosing doctors’ financial conflicts and did nothing Read the rest of this entry »

By DAVID B. CARUSO –
NEW YORK (AP) — Saying that police brutality is not an issue of color, the Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday joined the cause of a white man who claims that a group of officers sodomized him with a walkie-talkie.
Sharpton called for a thorough, independent investigation of Michael Mineo’s allegation that five officers tackled him in a subway station, then violated him with a radio antenna after his baggy pants either Read the rest of this entry »

does almost nothing to police the financial conflicts of doctors who conduct clinical trials of drugs and medical devices in human subjects, government investigators are reporting.
Moreover, the investigators say, agency officials told them that trying to protect patients from such conflicts was not worth the effort.
In 42 percent of clinical trials, the agency did not receive forms disclosing doctors’ financial conflicts and did nothing Read the rest of this entry »

A 10-MONTH inquiry into the NSW hospital system has found the system to be in crisis and has recommended sweeping changes, including the closure of six emergency departments in Sydney.
The long-awaited report of the special commission of inquiry, chaired by Peter Garling SC, also calls for the existing eight major trauma centres in Sydney to be slashed to three, and for radical changes to everything from doctors’ training and health workers’ roles Read the rest of this entry »

Police are trying to establish what happened to a nurse who was found alive in Lanarkshire in the boot of her own car 11 days after she went missing.
Magdeline Makola, 38, is being treated in hospital for minor injuries after being found in Airdrie on Friday.
The nurse, who lives alone about 20 miles away in Livingston, had last been seen finishing a shift on 15 December at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Police believe her car had been driven in Read the rest of this entry »

Services at one of England’s leading children’s hospitals are being investigated after complaints from its own consultants.
A review of services at Birmingham Children’s Hospital was commissioned after management meetings in August.
The Observer newspaper said the review has been highly critical but the hospital said the paper was not quoting an official report from the review.
The hospital said none of the concerns related to serious clinical Read the rest of this entry »