BMJ  2007;334:817 (21 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39185.497824.DB

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Three Russian doctors face trial for vaccine tests

Andrew Osborn

Moscow

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Three Russian doctors face a criminal trial after being accused of endangering children's health in the course of trials of vaccines for the drug company GlaxoSmithKline. If convicted they could be sentenced to up to six years in prison.

Prosecutors in the southern Russian city of Volgograd allege that the doctors tested GlaxoSmithKline vaccines on young babies who were not fully healthy and that parents' consent was not sought. The three doctors and GlaxoSmithKline deny any wrongdoing and say that the trials were done lawfully and entirely in accordance with relevant ethical obligations.

In fact it seems that the doctors are the victims of a political storm created by the Russian media, in which the vaccine trials have been depicted as experiments on unsuspecting citizens by predatory foreign firms.

The trials were done in 2005 at the Independent Clinical Hospital in Volgograd on GlaxoSmithKline's behalf and included 112 babies aged . . . [Full text of this article]


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