Thanks to Barbados Underground for continuing to report this story.

More here: http://medfraud.info/Barbados-study.html

The above link leads to a page on my website documenting my father’s dubious promotion (since 1996) of the Heimlich manoeuvre to stop asthma attacks, and the experiment which reportedly was conducted on dozens of Barbados children after a Cincinnati, Ohio hospital (with which my father was affiliated) refused him permission to conduct the study.

Re: my February 12, 2013 letter to Mr. Inniss, according to the December 16, 2012 Barbados Sunday Sun:

“In an email to this newspaper, (Dr. Anne St. John of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the study’s lead investigator) stated that the study did receive approval from the local Institutional Review Board (IRB)….”

The Sun article did not include the name of the IRB and, after months of inquiries, I’ve been unable to obtain the name of the IRB from Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Therefore, in my February 12, 2013 letter to Mr. Inniss, I asked him to provide me with the name of the IRB and who headed it.

I also asked Mr. Inniss if the study was approved by the Ministry of Health’s ethics committee and, if so, who headed that committee.

DAVID
WHY are you bringing this nonsense up again?
We have already made it lick that Peter Heimlich HAS NO AUTHORITY IN THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT TO REQUEST ANY REPORT ON THE CONDUCT OF ANY MEDICAL RESEARCH DONE IN BARBADOS OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE GLOBE.

@Well Well,

I am a chronic Asthma sufferer. If my doctor hand not found a combination of drugs that stop me from getting attacks I would not care what method was used to TRY TO HELP ME.

My mother was also chronically athsmatic and drank green tar and I was told lizard soup.It didn’t kill her but an athsma attack did.

Who cares about Heimlich? Let him sue if he has a patent.

David has a politically correct or (slanted) position.

@Dr. GP

Answer this question: do you think Barbadians deserve to know the outcome of that study?
ARE BAJANS INTERESTED IN THE RESULTS OF ANY MEDICAL STUDY?
HOW MANY OF THE BU FAMILY TRY TO PARTICIPATE OR ASK QUESTIONS ON ANY MEDICAL TOPIC RAISED ON BU?

IF THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY WERE OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE DONT YOU THINK IT WOULD HAVE CAUSED A HULLABALOO IN BIM.

ALSO THERE ARE PROPER PLACES FOR THE PUBLISHING OF MEDICAL STUDIES……….AND THESE DO NOT INCLUDE PLACATING HEMLICK

Dont know the answer DAVID lol
Why not give Anne a call. She is quite nice Sure she will give you an answer
I hope you understand my view about Hemlick and dictatorial Americans

@GP

It shouldn’t matter who raised the flag.

@Hants

Not necessary the minister and or his cohorts monitor BU 🙂

David
This is really a non issue

HANTS
UWI staff attached to the hospital must do research and publish to keep their tenure; so research is always being done.MOST of this research is published in the West Indian Medical Journal, and presented in an annual conference. This will undoubtedly include work on asthma.

Call Anne and ask David.
If the info has been published it should be in the Medical Library.

When these questions are answered, then you can review and decide but knowing the level of corruption that is an epidemic within these two political parties, one has to be continually asking questions about everything concerning and affecting the taxpayers.