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In the Oklahoma case, it may have been a nobler motive that tripped up McGee. "McGee is a good surgeon and a decent man," maintains his whistle-blowing research nurse, Mathias. "But he became a biased investigator. He thought he had found the cure for cancer. He really wasn't...
Mathias reported substantial protocol violations to Plunket and told Dr. Harold Brooks, dean of the university's College of Medicine in Tulsa, as well. They finally agreed to hire an outside consulting firm to audit the experiment. The finding: deficiencies "so severe that it is beyond the scope of this...
Luckily for many of the patients in Dr. Michael McGee's vaccine trial, Cherlynn Mathias already had that attitude--though she has paid a price for her action. Facing nasty criticism from many of her colleagues at the University of Oklahoma and worried she would not be able to get...
This is national infant Immunization Week. Now that's not a subject I would normally deem column worthy, but in this case the irony is too rich to ignore. For even as it celebrates the benefits of childhood vaccination, the U.S. is running out of the very vaccines needed to...
Here's another paradox: the U.S. government is about to spend $850 million to make sure there's enough smallpox vaccine to protect every man, woman and child against the theoretical risk of a bioterrorist attack. Yet at the same time it's having trouble protecting kids from the clear...