A selection of Brian Deer’s reports on pharmaceuticals and the drug industry
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 Septrin-Bactrim: A […]
Reprint: Top-selling drug may have killed hundreds in Britain The Sunday Times February 27 1994 By Brian Deer Scientific evidence which has accumulated over more than 20 years suggests that hundreds of people may have […]
An introduction to Brian Deer’s campaign Septrin-Septra-Bactrim: a pill that killed This page introduces and summarises a campaign by Brian Deer in The Sunday Times of London in the 1990s over risks and side-effects from […]
Added risk for no benefit: exposing the Bactrim – Septrin scandal An investigation by Brian Deer This Sunday Times investigation from the 1990s shone the first public spotlight on an appalling toll of sickness, disability […]
Reprint: Victims of drug that took a hidden toll The Sunday Times, August 21 2005 A special investigation by Brian Deer WHEN Kenneth Wood died of a heart attack two years ago, on the day […]
Reprint Love sickness If you don’t want to drop everything and have sex right now, you’re among the 1 in 3 women suffering from Sexual Interest Disorder. That’s what some doctors think. Is it part […]
Reprint The Vanishing Victims Can the whooping cough vaccine cause brain damage? A drug company paid out more than £2.75m, plus costs, when an Irish court declared that Kenneth Best was damaged by whooping cough […]
Reprint: The long shot The Sunday Times Magazine May 17 1998 Brian Deer Once a month, at around 3pm, Dr Donald Francis, president of the VaxGen corporation, boards a 747 at San Francisco airport for […]
In his will documents of 1932, the American-born pharmaceuticals pioneer Henry Wellcome devised an ingenious plan that was to give him more power over health and medicine after his death than would be possessed by […]
Reprint: The pill: professor’s safety tests were faked The Sunday Times, September 28 1986 By Brian Deer Social Affairs Correspondent RESEARCH into the long-term side effects of a new generation of contraceptive pills was fabricated […]
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