tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447011276476951882024-03-12T18:51:11.836-07:00WATCHDOG ON SCIENCEwatchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.comBlogger383125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-91887983527681866222013-03-11T20:36:00.000-07:002013-03-11T20:36:31.914-07:0060 Minutes Biased Reporting on FDA’s Oversight Debacle of NECC
FDA inspects NECC after deaths occur
Last night on March 10, 2013, 60 Minutes presented an improperly slanted report on the NECC (New England Compounding Company) oversight debacle which has currently caused 48 deaths from a release of a fungal-contaminated injectable medicine. The 60 Minutes’ story failed to report on important facts behind FDA’s role within the current regulatory framework watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-45841055819058936522012-11-15T01:42:00.001-08:002012-11-15T01:42:30.138-08:00Congressional Hearing on Deadly Meningitis Outbreak Wants Answers from FDA
The Commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg was called on the carpet at a congressional hearing yesterday after the FDA failed to take action to prevent a deadly meningitis outbreak throughout the country.
NECC (New England Compounding Company) made and distributed batches of a fungal contaminated medicine, which caused numerous deaths and serious illness throughout the country.&watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-81266062378625918772012-11-02T12:09:00.001-07:002012-11-02T12:09:11.450-07:00Will New Laws Prevent Future Meningitis Outbreaks?
Legislators Should Examine FDA before Creating New Laws
Today an article from the Wall Street Journal reports that Rep Edward J. Markey (D., Mass) and Rep Rosa De Lauro (D., Conn) plan to introduce a bills that would “give the FDA clearer authority to regulate large pharmacies that mix customize drugs like the one tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak”.
But legislators may be on watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-16322329923358128462012-04-21T04:09:00.000-07:002012-04-21T04:09:17.486-07:00New Emerging Disease in Vietnam
A new mystery illnes has hit Vietnam causing concern from government officials. At least 19 people have died and 171 are sickened. Patients first experience a fever with rashes on their hands and feet. Organ failure can result leading to death.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/20/11299851-vietnam-pleads-for-help-as-mystery-disease-kills-19-sickens-171watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-51304835788396611352012-04-10T19:49:00.001-07:002012-04-10T19:53:37.076-07:00Almost Pizza_Almost Synthetic BiologySee this Saturday Night Live skit showing a synthetic bio-nanotech pizza (by Pfizer)http://www.hulu.com/watch/348484/saturday-night-live-almost-pizza
http://climate-connections.org/2012/04/09/almost-pizza-synthetic-biology-hits-saturday-night-live/
watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-59303397118622742072012-03-22T10:17:00.000-07:002012-03-22T10:17:18.804-07:00Mystery Illness Attacks ChildrenThousands of Children Attacked by Mystery Disease
A crippling mystery illness has attacked thousand of once healthy young children in Uganda. Medical officials throughout the world are perplexed as thousands of children become completely disabled mentally and physically with neurological effects such as seizures and brain disfunction. Some children have even succumb to death. The watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-47106865369269374112012-03-20T10:51:00.000-07:002012-03-20T10:51:05.351-07:00Lab Shuts Down after another Biocontainment ProblemUniversity of Chicago lab closed after infection case
Science News
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/09/15/University-of-Chicago-lab-closed-after-infection-case/UPI-86931316102258/
CHICAGO, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- University of Chicago officials say they've suspended research in a school lab after a scientist contracted an infection from a bacteria being studied there.
The unidentifiedwatchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-47144544526321609872012-03-14T15:51:00.000-07:002012-03-14T15:51:06.894-07:00Lab Acquired Infection--JEANNETTE'S STORY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j91bKUUsZM
watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-64767678777788902372012-03-08T14:19:00.001-08:002012-03-08T14:20:13.500-08:00Investment Potential for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Looks DimQuestionable Investment Potential for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program_StemCONN 2011
In 2005 without going to a public referendum Connecticut’s General Assembly and Governor passed into law an Act authorizing state funding of human embryonic stem research. The Act mandated that $100 Million dollars of public funds be used to support this research over a 10 year period. This research endeavor watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-48454413646453520472012-03-06T10:02:00.000-08:002012-03-06T10:02:46.305-08:00LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN U.S. GOVERNMENT-FUNDED RESEARCHCommission Calls for Transparency in U.S. Government-Funded Research
Written by Michelle Groman on November 16, 2011 —
http://blog.bioethics.gov/2011/11/16/commission-calls-for-transparency-in-u-s-government-funded-research/
As the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues continued its assessment of current protections for human subjects in research at its public meeting in watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-68030432564853421102012-03-06T09:42:00.001-08:002012-03-06T09:44:01.709-08:00INJURY AND DEATHS OF WORKERS HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC_ A LACK OF DISCLOSUREBelow is a great story from researcher Celeste Monforton at Georgetown University relaying the facts surrounding a worker's death at her university and the difficulty of her finding adequate disclosure by OSHA. Her story shows how difficult the government is making it for the public to understand the facts surrounding the numbers and the degree of injuries and deaths that workers face watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-84499683296461831762012-03-06T08:23:00.000-08:002012-03-06T08:23:49.795-08:00UNREPORTED LAB ACCIDENTS MAKES FOR FALSE CLAIMS OF SAFETY IN LABSExperts say US needs better tracking of lab accidents
Robert Roos News Editor
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/bioprep/news/jan0512labsafe.html
Jan 5, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – In releasing safety guidelines today for workers in medical diagnostic laboratories, a panel of experts convened by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the nation watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-58055326190250243252012-03-03T17:19:00.000-08:002012-03-03T17:19:04.666-08:00Whistleblower Complains of Pfizer Hiding Adverse EventsPfizer May Be Liable for Firing Whistle-Blower
By WILLIAM DOTINGA
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/02/44377.htm
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) - A former Pfizer executive can pursue claims that the pharmaceutical giant fired her for blowing the whistle on "dirty" data, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Delina Ferretti, who worked for Pfizer as lead clinical protocol manager, worked with a watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-38007899534474143472012-03-01T20:07:00.008-08:002012-03-02T06:56:47.869-08:00Pfizer Groton Occupied
Video from Occupy Shoreline CT.org
http://occupyshorelinect.org/content/f29-pfizer-alec-protest-groton-ct#comments
Close to one hundred people in Connecticut gathered on March 29, 2012 to protest Pfizer in front of their large facility in Groton, Connecticut. Pfizer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, is a member of a controversial group called the American watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-77415605718192445732012-02-27T04:09:00.001-08:002012-02-27T04:11:17.674-08:00Texas Rat Snake and Lizard in Action watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-38724194200912467592012-02-25T05:31:00.000-08:002012-02-25T05:31:42.851-08:00Experimenting with Danger
http://www.csb.gov/videoroom/detail.aspx?VID=61
See the link above to a CSB video that highlights the lack of safety, regulations, and oversight in research laboratories in the United States. With no obligatory uniform minimum standard of safety mandated for all research labs in the United States, serious injuries and deaths that could have been prevented watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-90154601050365826622011-09-29T08:13:00.000-07:002011-09-29T08:13:32.875-07:00Congentital Lyme Disease Induces AutismA report by FOX news reports on congenital Lyme Disease having the potential to cause autism in children:
http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-treating-lyme-induced-autism-20110926-001,0,65417.premiumvideo
watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-32796298688993896462011-09-25T17:08:00.000-07:002011-09-25T17:08:31.286-07:00Pfizer Biotech Whistleblower Speaks Outwatchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-89251079853724942942011-09-13T11:39:00.000-07:002011-09-13T11:39:03.031-07:00Public Health and Safety_Biotech Worker Made Ill from Unsafe Biotech Laboratories at Univ of Chicago
University of Chicago Microbiologist Infected From Possible Lab Accident
by Jocelyn Kaiser on 12 September 2011, 5:17 PM
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/09/university-of-chicago-microbiologist.html?ref=hp
Another laboratory-acquired infection may have occurred in a University of Chicago building where 2 years ago a researcher contracted plague and later died. Late last watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-60410719120707368242011-09-13T11:13:00.000-07:002011-09-13T11:13:44.886-07:00Transparancy Lacking on Human Clinical Trials in America Commission builds database of scientific trialshttp://blog.bioethics.gov/2011/08/30/commission-builds-database-of-scientific-trials/
Written by John Donnelly on August 30, 2011
One basic issue in today’s federally funded research involving human subjects around the world: There’s no single database.
Dr. Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-79350339246085635642011-09-08T12:04:00.000-07:002011-09-08T12:07:55.875-07:00Protests against Dangerous Biolab in BostonWILPF Boston is active in the Stop the Bioterror Lab Coalition anchored by Safety Net Roxbury and composed of several groups and concerned individuals. The Boston University Level 4 Lab would be the 5th or 6th known level 4 lab in the US. These labs are intended to research the most deadly microorganisms known for which there are no cures. Unfortunately, most of the agents listed in the Request watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-66492469710238849552011-09-07T09:03:00.000-07:002011-09-07T09:03:00.636-07:00Enemy of EPA_Whistleblower Marsha ColemanHigh Price Of Blowing The Whistle On EPA
Marsha Coleman blew the whistle on the U. S. government colluding and protecting corporate misdoings in South Africa where men were knowingly killed by an occupational disease caused by vanadium poisoning.
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/06/140214594/high-price-of-blowing-the-whistle-on-epa
watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-41560456028562177762011-09-07T06:51:00.000-07:002011-09-07T06:51:27.296-07:00Laboratory Safety Lacking in California
One dead in chemical blast at Menlo Park firm
Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sept. 3, 2011
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/02/BAL21KVRFL.DTL&tsp=1
A body is brought out and another person injured after an explosion at 4:15pm atMenlo Science and Technology Park in Menlo Park, Ca., on Friday, September 2, 2011. Fire chief Harold Schapelhouman said that the watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-65705925419081231202011-08-18T13:07:00.000-07:002011-08-18T13:07:15.846-07:00Concerns for Public Health and Safety and Social Implications of Synthetic Biology
See link below for video testimonies:
http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/bioethics/100708/globe_show/default_go_archive.cfm?gsid=1380&type=flv&test=0&live=0
watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444701127647695188.post-15013893240366627262011-08-13T20:57:00.000-07:002011-08-13T20:57:57.184-07:00Video Purposely Ignores Public Health and Safety Issues in Synthetic Biology
Here is a rather propagandized video which is written to advocate for synthetic biology while leaving out many critical issues. The most blatant omission is the public health and safety issues surrounding synthetic biology. The world of biology doesn’t behave like a sky scraper like these engineers believe. But rather, biology is dynamic with some predictable and many watchdog on sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05261048225575859049noreply@blogger.com0