Advisers on Vaccines Often Have Conflicts, Report Says

[mcablue]

Source: New York Times

By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: December 17, 2009
WASHINGTON — A new report finds that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a poor job of screening medical experts for financial conflicts when it hired them to advise the agency on vaccine safety, officials said Thursday.

Most of the experts who served on advisory panels in 2007 to evaluate vaccines for flu and cervical cancer had potential conflicts that were never resolved, the report said. Some were legally barred from considering the issues but did so anyway.

In the report, expected to be released Friday, Daniel R. Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, found that the centers failed nearly every time to ensure that the experts adequately filled out forms confirming they were not being paid by companies with an interest in their decisions.

The report found that 64 percent of the advisers had potential conflicts of interest that were never identified or were left unresolved by the centers. Thirteen percent failed to have an appropriate conflicts form on file at the agency at all, which should have barred their participation in the meetings entirely, Mr. Levinson found. And 3 percent voted on matters that ethics officers had already barred them from considering.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/health/policy/18cdc.html?ref=us

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Very dangerous stuff.

[Tumbulu]

1. Typical bushco stuff

I hope that this type of thing will end going forward.

[Ranting_Wacko]

2. Old News for those of some of us...

CDC Vaccine Advisor Pockets $29 Million Promoting Vaccines
http://www.naturalnews.com/026359_CDC_rotavirus_vaccination.html

[truedelphi]

4. Thank you for that link. n/t

[bobshin]

3. And the latest: the H1N1 vaccine fire sale! Going on now at your local pharmacy, drug pusher.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027766_H1N1_vaccines_swine_flu.html

Hurry up before they run out! Urgent!11111!!

[truedelphi]

5. Supposedly thirty thousand people were made ill by Swine Flu

OF course, among the few people that I knew who got it, at least half got it right after having their vaccines (Within 96hours!)

[mzmolly]

6. Yes indeed

they do.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. This sort of lapse in procedures can undermine public confidence in vaccines

and influences the adoption of universal vaccine recommendations when it may not be warranted.
Safe and effective vaccines have saved many lives. If the vaccine is all that it's cracked up to be there'd be no need to taint the approval and review process by stacking the panels with those who have a conflict of interest.