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Tuesday, April 15, 2003"This comes up periodically, but malaria has never worked for anything...If Heimlich is really doing this, he should be put in jail," said Mark Harrington, executive director of Treatment Action Group, an AIDS research advocacy organisation. Dr. Heimlich says there is reason to think his method will work, and is not a danger to the already immunosuppressed AIDS patients. The CDC says otherwise: In 1993, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention issued a memorandum saying malarial therapy could not be justified because it might well do more harm than good. He already did a preliminary trial in China, and his collaborators are now in trouble: Meanwhile the University of California at Los Angeles is investigating whether two of its medical researchers took part in the Chinese malarial therapy trial. The university said a medical review board is looking into whether Dr John Fahey and Dr Najib Aziz violated policies that regulate tests on humans. On February 16, the Cincinnati Enquirer published an article in which Heimlich described his work in China and said Fahey was involved. "He is a fine person who gave of himself and helped tremendously. It is exceedingly reprehensible for him to be challenged in this way," Heimlich said. Some might say it’s exceedingly reprehensible to deliberately infect someone with a bad immune system with a disease that can itself be deadly - and one that is increasingly resistant to antibiotic therapy. The fact that the research is being done in the Third World, which doesn’t have the same patient-protection laws that the developed world has, speaks volumes. posted by Sydney on 4/15/2003 08:24:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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