GlaxoSmithKline fined for unethical drug trials on infants in Argentina

A lower court in Argentina has fined GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) US $92,786 for conducting unethical clinical trials of a pneumonia vaccine on 15,000 babies in the country. It is reported that most of the infants recruited for the trial were from poor families who attended public hospitals. However GSK, Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical company, has denied charges and will soon file an appeal against the ruling in the Supreme Court of Argentina.

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Salmon hatcheries deplete wild stocks

each year, hatcheries release millions of chinook into the River Columbia in the us in a bid by state game managers to save wild stocks of this salmon. The fish there is so beleaguered that many of its populations, threatened with extinction, are protected under the us Endangered Species Act. A new study now offers evidence that hatchery fish may be hastening the wild stocks' demise.