Who's Afraid of Gardasil?
Karen Houppert : Medicine/Drugs
A medical breakthrough has provoked opposition from conservatives, consumer advocates and antivaccine groups.

Karen Houppert : Medicine/Drugs
A medical breakthrough has provoked opposition from conservatives, consumer advocates and antivaccine groups.
As Big Pharma increasingly turns to the Third World to test its products, this lush film will spark outrage, but glosses over the constant vigilance necessary to police drug trials.
US drug firms make the choice clear: our outrageous profits or your
life.
Biomedical research has been compromised by cozy relations with the pharmaceutical industry.



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