The Ginkgo biloba or Maidenhair tree is a beautiful creature, and I’ve several growing myself.
But the gardener’s delight may be a patient’s peril – recent tests suggest some ginkgo products in Australia have been adulterated and that consumers are being conned.
Dr Ken Harvey, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at [...]
Following on from previous posts, here is another letter to Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, from Ken Harvey today (and copied to Graeme Samuel at the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission).
Will he get a response this time?
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Dear Mr Butler,
Re: Media release, 8 September 2008, “Ethical Promotion of Therapeutic Goods”
I have written [...]
News that Pfizer is paying $2.3 billion in the US to settle a marketing case has prompted a call for changes in the way Australia does business from Dr Ken Harvey, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at La Trobe University.
He writes:
The New York Times report says: “Prosecutors said that [...]
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