Personal Injury Law

Conflicts abound for advisers on vaccines

The New York Times recently reported about a new report that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did a poor job of screening medical experts for financial conflicts when it hired them to advise the agency on vaccine safety. The report stated that most of the experts who served on advisory panels in 2007 to evaluate vaccines for flu and cervical cancer had potential conflicts of interest that were never resolved. The issue was so problematic that some advisers were legally prohibited from considering the vaccine issues, but did so anyway! As many unsafe medicines have been pulled from the market in recent years, worries have intensified that experts may be recommending medical products in part because manufacturers are paying them.

Full post as published by Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).