April 12, 2002 search the site
Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering - Education and debate - BMJ
SV40, polio vaccine, and cancer: Now beyond coincidence? - BioMedNet
Poliomyelitis Eradication--a Dangerous Endgame - www.sciencemag.org
Privacy Changes Proposed - Bush Plan Would Lessen Patients' Say On Records - The Washington Post
Potential HIV vaccine crop in development - www.ananova.com
Cash link to smallpox contract denied - BBC
UK stockpiles smallpox vaccine - BBC
Parents of Autistic Children Sue Drug Firms, Dental Groups - Reuters via Medscape
Varicella Vaccine Protects Adults Against Serious Disease Over Long Term - Reuters via Medscape
Fox Chase Cancer Center receives grant to study possible link between measles vaccine and autism - www.eurekalert.org
Anti-MMR supporters criticise research - Belfast Telegraph
Severe Psychiatric Disorders May Be Increasing - www.psychiatrictimes.com
"Health: Vietnam Short of DPT Vaccine" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Death Toll Tops 1,000 in Meningitis Epidemic Believed Carried by Mecca Pilgrims" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Vaccine Shortage Threatens World's Immunization Programs" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Tool Computes Optimal Price for Combination Vaccines" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Chickenpox Shot Is Added to List of Required Vaccines" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"UW Tests Vaccine for Bladder Infection" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Doctors Group: More Vigilance Needed in Immunizing Adults" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Pentagon's Missteps Stalled New Vaccines" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
Disease-Mongers: How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers are Making You Feel Sick - BMJ book review
Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health - BMJ book review
Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience - Education and debate - BMJ - "For"
Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience - Education and debate - BMJ - "Against"
Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying - Education and debate - BMJ
Has the medicalisation of childbirth gone too far? - Education and debate - BMJ
In search of "non-disease" - Clinical review - BMJ
Workplace bullying in junior doctors: questionnaire survey - Papers - BMJ
Hepatitis B immunisation in renal units in the United Kingdom: questionnaire study - Papers - BMJ
Study associates viral infection with some childhood brain tumours - News roundup - BMJ
WHO targets environmental impact on child health - News roundup - BMJ
NHS misses target for introducing electronic records - News roundup - BMJ
US report calls for tighter controls on complementary medicine - News roundup - BMJ
Arthritis drug should be removed from market, says consumer group - News - BMJ
Neuroblastoma screening does not reduce mortality - News - BMJ
Postmodern medicine - Editor's choice - BMJ
Drug firms hype disease as sales ploy, industry chief claims - Editorials - BMJ
Medicalisation: peering from inside medicine - Editorials - BMJ
Medicalisation, limits to medicine, or never enough money to go around? - Editorials - BMJ
Genetics and medicalisation - Editorials - BMJ
Health: perception versus observation - Editorials - BMJ
Too Much Medicine? - Editorials - BMJ
Is a good death now a medical death? - BMJ
Obstetricians have medicalised childbirth - BMJ
Action is needed to stop "disease mongering" - BMJ
Many junior doctors experience bullying - BMJ
When is a disease a "non-disease"? - BMJ
What do you think is a non-disease? - letters at BMJ
Doctors' knowledge of radiation exposures is deficient - letters at BMJ
Blood and Thunder From AIDS Labs - The New York Times
Drug Makers to Help U.S. Inform Doctors - The New York Times
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