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1. Information Commissioner Appoints Case Officer To Investigate GMC Handling Of Dr Sarah Myhill Case
I have written to the General Medical Council in relation to Dr Sarah Myhill, Case Reference PB/C1-314994282.and asked for: 1. The total of the external costs (such as legal and expert witness fees) which the GMC incurred as a result of the above case reference. 2. The total (and as detailed a breakdown as your accounting records will allow) of the internal costs (such as man hour costs and photocopying costs etc) which the GMC incurred as a result of the above case reference. The GMC, as the holder of information, had 20 days to give a substantive response to such requests. This is as detailed in section 10 of the Freedom of Information Act. The GMC has not complied with the deadline nor given reasons as to why it has been unable to comply, therefore an official letter of complaint has been despatched to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The ICO has responded stating that it intends to appoint a Case Officer t o investigate this complaint. The ICO can fine the authority and individuals within the authority if certain conditions are met. Saunders Law Partnership LLP have been invited to challenge the judgement of the General Medical Council’s Interim Orders Panel (IOP) with a view to restoring Dr Sarah Myhill’s prescribing rights and removing the conditions that have been imposed on her medical licence to practice.
Craig Robinson, Support Dr Sarah Myhill Campaign
Related Links:
* Supporting Dr Sarah Myhill - New Website Launched
Information Release, The One Click Group
* Dr Sarah Myhill Appoints Saunders Law Partnership LLP
Information Release, Support Dr Sarah Myhill Campaign
2. CDC Incompetence Exposed As US Government Agencies Find XMRV Virus In Blood Of ME/CFS Patients
On April 15, 2010, a government source told CFS Central that a soon-to-be-published CDC study hadn’t found the retrovirus XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Sydrome (ME/CFS) patients but that another government agency had. The agency that found XMRV in CFS patients—and up to 7 percent of the blood supply—turned out to be two agencies: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the FDA, as was leaked last week. Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the CDC paper which was accepted at the journal Retrovirology has been put on hold, as has the FDA/NIH paper, which was accepted at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The reason? According to the Wall Street Journal, it’s because “senior public-health officials wanted to see consensus—or at least an explanation of how and why the papers reached different conclusions.” The CDC has had a problematic year where CFS is concerne d. The long-time CDC principal investigator for CFS research Dr. William Reeves was reassigned on February 14, which many critics believe was because the scientist was embarrassing the agency. Privately, insiders have told CFS Central that they did not expect the CDC to find the retrovirus because the agency’s CFS definition has been watered down from one neuroimmune disease to five different combinations of depression, insomnia, obesity and “metabolic strain,” as Reeves himself explained in a 2009 paper. If the CDC had found the retrovirus, it would have negated its 20-year affair with CFS as a psychological problem. Now that two other government agencies have found XMRV and other studies due out this summer have also found the retrovirus, critics point out that the CDC is in a no-win situation and beginning to look like the odd man out.
Information Release, CFS Central
Related Links:
* FDA And NIH Confirm XMRV Findings In ME/CFS Patients
Esme, Press Release from the Netherlands
* Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Judy A. Mikovits et al, 10.1126/science.1179052, Science Express
3. Nigerians Can Proceed To US Supreme Court With Pfizer Lawsuits
The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Pfizer to overturn a ruling that reinstated lawsuits filed by Nigerian families, who say the drugmaker tested an experimental antibiotic on their children without getting adequate consent. Earlier this month, the US Solicitor General filed a brief arguing the Supreme Court should not bother to hear the case. Pfizer was accused of failing to obtain proper regulatory approval and misleading parents. The study allegedly left 11 children dead and the others were deformed. The appeal was closely watched, in part, because it raised points that are important to multi-national corporations - whether such a company can be sued under the Alien Tort Statute and whether violations of this statute encompass activities conducted overseas.
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
Related Links:
* So Many Foreign Clinical Trials, So Little Oversight
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
4. Revolting MPs Abuse Their Sleaze Watchdog In Expenses Row
MPs threatened to veto the budget set by their new anti-sleaze watchdog, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Committee and plunge the whole system into crisis amid extraordinary scenes in Parliament yesterday. The IPSA was set up by Parliament after the MPs’ expenses scandal to design and police a new regime of pay and allowances. Dozens of MPs watched from public seats and punctuated the hearing with sounds of scorn, mocking laughter and even muttered swearing – an unprecedented break with the strict silence required of members of the public attending committee sessions. John Bercow MP and Bob Russel MP were at centre of the row in Westminster. Mr Brown demanded: “Can you think of another job that requires people to pay their own money upfront, then claim it back?’ MPs made disbelieving noises as IPSA chairman Sir Ian Kennedy told him there were many cases.
Alison Little, Daily Express
Related Links:
* Greedy Bankers And Corrupt MPs Squander Britain's Wealth
Michael Winner, Daily Mail
* £2M-A-Year Second Homes Scandal - MPs Rip Off British Taxpayers' AGAIN!
Alison Little, Martyn Brown & Padraic Flanagan - Daily Express
* Expenses Scandal MPs Granted Legal Aid
Big Pond
* Two More MP Rent Boys For Sale - Lobbygate Britain Steams On
Insight, The Sunday Times
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