Organisation: Wellcome Foundation

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Ground-breaking gene therapy used for first time in Ireland to treat haemophilia

Ground-breaking gene therapy has been used for the first time to treat a person with severe haemophilia in Ireland.

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Nuns in Scottish case ran Irish mother and baby home

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Babies in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home were used for formula trial

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Bessborough babies were used for formula trial

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Vaccine trials: Unravelling the drug trials scandal

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Fifth vaccine trial on children exposed

Vaccine trials - Openness is required to do justice

The urgent need for greater openness and accountability in the murky world of vaccine trials is borne out by today’s front page report showing the public was kept in the dark about a previously unknown trial carried out on Irish children during the 1960s.

Mon, 01 Dec, 2014

Order had refused to transfer vaccine files

The order which ran the mother-and-baby home in Bessborough in Cork initially refused to transfer files relating to controversial vaccine trials to the HSE.

Tue, 10 Jun, 2014

Vaccine trial files will not be transferred to HSE

FILES relating to controversial vaccine trials carried out on children at a Mother and Baby Home run by the Sacred Heart Convent in Bessboro in Cork will not be transferred to the HSE.

Wed, 10 Aug, 2011