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The Sunday Guardian
February 10, 2018
Marisa Taylor, a McClatchy journalist, says even when military staff admit these crimes they are not necessarily referred to law enforcement agencies. For example, an Air Force Lt. Col. confessed to downloading “child pornography on his Pentagon computer and to touching a child in a sexual way” duringÃâà...
Salon
January 25, 2018
SIU's ethics panel launched a “full” investigation Dec. 5 of the herpes vaccine experiments by university professor William Halford, according to a memo obtained by Kaiser Health News. Halford, who died in June, had injected Americans with his experimental herpes vaccine in St. Kitts and Nevis in 2016Ãâà...
Salon
January 13, 2018
A Republican senator is demanding that the Trump administration and a university scrutinize how a researcher was able to inject an experimental herpes vaccine into human subjects without routine safety oversight. In letters sent out Thursday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley also told the administration andÃâà...
STAT
December 21, 2017
ecent revelations that a U.S. researcher injected Americans with his experimental herpes vaccine without routine safety oversight raised an uproar 1 among scientists and ethicists. Not only did Southern Illinois University researcher William Halford vaccinate Americans offshore 1, he injected otherÃâà...
Scientific American
November 21, 2017
Three years before launching an offshore herpes vaccine trial, an American researcher vaccinated patients in U.S. hotel rooms in brazen violation of U.S. law, a Kaiser Health News investigation has found. Southern Illinois University associate professor William Halford administered the shots himself at aÃâà...
Kaiser Health News
November 21, 2017
In 2013, Halford, who was a microbiologist not a physician, noted a need for secrecy in one email to a participant, writing that it would be “suicide” if he became too public about how he was conducting his research. Many email exchanges with participants in 2013 — asking them to send photographs ofÃâà...
Reason (blog)
September 1, 2017
Mancuso was interviewed for the DailyBeast article and he was shocked by the story's conclusions. Incensed by what he regards as the bias and unfairness, Mancuso has posted a heartfelt YouTube video aimed directly at the reporter. "You didn't even mention the fact that I gave informed consent and soÃâà...
Scientific American
August 31, 2017
The government of St. Kitts and Nevis has launched an investigation into the clinical trial for a herpes vaccine by an American company because it said its officials were not notified about the experiments. The vaccine research has sparked controversy because the lead investigator, a professor withÃâà...
Salon
August 28, 2017
Marisa Taylor, Kaiser Health News08.28.2017•3:15 PM. This article originally appeared on Kaiser Health News. WASHINGTON — Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of anÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
August 28, 2017
However, after a reporter raised questions about the lack of an IRB, Carlson added that the university would “take this opportunity to review our internal processes to assure we are following best practices.” Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation,Ãâà...
Common Dreams
August 5, 2017
Marisa Taylor and Jonathan Landay of McClatchy Newspapers detailed how it extended "beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration, and the Education and Agriculture departments.
Houston Chronicle
August 4, 2017
By Marisa Taylor, Kaiser Health News. August 4, 2017. Carol Emanuele of Philadelphia underwent two years of procedures for an open wound on her foot. Emanuele shows a photo of a VAC (vacuum-assisted closure. Carol Emanuele of Philadelphia underwent two years of procedures for an open wound on her foot.
McClatchy Washington Bureau
August 18, 2016
Allegations of anti-Semitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving. Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging whenÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
July 23, 2015
A government watchdog has ordered the CIA and the Pentagon to re-investigate retaliation allegations brought by two intelligence employees who accused their agencies of major institutional failings. The action by the intelligence community inspector general is the first public indication that a newÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
June 20, 2013
Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for “high-risk persons or behaviors” amongÃâà...
