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CDC vaccine boss campaigned before job deal

CDC leader with secret VaxGen deal campaigned for trials like AidsVax Brian Deer’s investigation of the claimed “world’s first AIDS vaccine” unearthed a shocking secret deal between the VaxGen company and a senior manager at […]

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Launching Pfizer’s Viagra, 1998

Reprint The Sunday Times Magazine, September 6 1998 Sex drugs & rock ‘n’ roll Viagra is the sex sensation of the century. Launched as a cure for impotence, it has now become the latest lifestyle […]

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Brian Deer on Vioxx deaths in UK

Reprint Withdrawn painkiller linked to hundreds of deaths The Sunday Times, February 13 2005 Brian Deer DOCTORS have reported 103 deaths they suspect were due to the painkiller Vioxx, which was withdrawn from sale over […]

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UK deaths from Vioxx painkiller

Reprint Vioxx death toll may hit 2,000 in UK The Sunday Times, August 21 2005 Brian Deer THE families of as many as 2,000 British patients who died after using the painkiller Vioxx could join […]

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Federal prosecution of ex-CDC staffer at VaxGen

Documents obtained in 1999 by Brian Deer during his Sunday Times investigation of AidVax, the supposed “world’s first Aids vaccine”, from the California company, VaxGen Inc, resulted in federal prosection of Dr William Heyward, who […]

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VaxGen job was fixed for CDC vaccine chief

Scandal of job deal for CDC official Documents passed to Brian Deer during his 1999 Sunday Times investigation of the so-called “world’s first Aids vaccine” involving California company, VaxGen Inc, resulted in federal prosection of […]

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Deer’s Dispatches on TGN1412 disaster

Dispatches: Thursday 28 September 2006, 9-10 pm The drug trial that went wrong Award-winning journalist Brian Deer investigates the circumstances surrounding the infamous drug trial conducted at a private unit in London’s Northwick Park Hospital […]

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VaxGen’s AidsVax fiasco

History of medicine “AidsVax: The world’s first AIDS vaccine” This page archives materials gathered by Brian Deer from his investigation for The Sunday Times of London into VaxGen Inc of California, and its “world’s first […]

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Septrin, Bactrim, Septra, Brian Deer investigates

This page is material from a 1990s investigation and campaign in The Sunday Times of London over the risks of an antibiotic with many names, such as Septra, Septrin, Bactrim, Sulfatrim, and co-trimoxazole Reprint One […]

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Bactrim, Septra, Septrin side-effects

This page is material from a 1990s investigation and campaign in The Sunday Times of London over the risks of an antibiotic with many names, such as Septra, Septrin, Bactrim, Sulfatrim, and co-trimoxazole Reprint The […]