Shah: Outsourcing Risks Jun 8, 2007
During the 1970s an unapproved antimalarial drug, quinacrine, was distributed to hundreds of thousands of illiterate women, triggering permanent sterilisation. In the 1980s an injectable contraceptive, that had been withdrawn from the market when it was found to cause tumours in rats, was tested on villagers who later said they had "no idea they were participating in a trial". (Zmag.org)
Patients facing 'substantial' vCJD risk Dec 8, 2006
He joined an experimental Medical Research Council trial for a treatment called Prion-1 which began in 2004, in which patients were given a drug called quinacrine, but he died a year later at the age of 32. The diagnosis of vCJD was confirmed after his death after his tonsil tissue was examined. (BBC News -- UK)
Thousands in vCJD scare Dec 8, 2006
He opted to join an experimental treatment trial organised by the Medical Research Council in which patients are given the drug quinacrine. He died a year later, aged 32. (London Times Online)
A Potential Anti-prion Drug With 'Unprecedented' Potency Nov 1, 2006
That drug is quinacrine, already approved for several other medical conditions ... One of those compounds has what the report describes as "unprecedented" anti-prion activity, with 15 times greater potency than quinacrine. (Science Daily)
Hartmann: Everyday Eugenics Sep 23, 2006
It is not surprising then that one can hear echoes of negative eugenics in population control measures and technologies targeted at poor women (welfare 'reform' family caps, the Project Prevention organization that gives incentives to drug users to use long-term contraception or be sterilized, recent FDA approval of quinacrine chemical sterilization trials) and in genetic screening for fetal disability. Consumer choice - Just as the concept of burden is intrinsic to negative eugenics, so is the... (Zmag.org)
