Part II. What Do We Get for All That Money? A preventable epidemic of injury and death from prescription drugs; FDA’s contribution to the epidemic; Big Pharma’s business model: manufactured myths, propaganda and a hidden agenda;
America’s health care expenditure is about to go through the roof–without improving anyone’s health! Continue reading →
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, acknowledged: “The message here is that there were problems with the integrity of F.D.A.’s decision-making process that have solutions.” Continue reading →
Two high ranking FDA officials’ conflicts of interest have led one to resign, the other is under investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services:
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The FDA is sliding rapidly down the slippery slope, abandoning widely accepted, international ethical research standards articulated in the internationally accepted, Declaration of Helsinki–to facilitate commercial medical experiments.
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FDA officials who continue to run its powerful center for drug evaluation (CDER) have once again shown bad faith by appointing financially compromised doctors to the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) advisory panel. Continue reading →
Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, a former health commissioner in New York City, is the leading candidate to become FDA commissioner, the agency's top job, while Baltimore health chief Joshua Sharfstein is in line to become a deputy commissioner Continue reading →
The Washington Post suggests, the chance for success in overhauling US healthcare depends on President Obama's ability to keep the major–discordant–players on board. Continue reading →
A follow-up letter to FDA Commissioner, Andrew vonEschenbach RE: Thomas Laughren, FDA’s ‘s Director of Psychiatry Products who has been actively promoting psychotropic drugs–even penning his name to ghostwritten industry-sponsored articles and consensus panels. Continue reading →
Complaint about a surge of FDA administrative approvals for expanded use of highly toxic antipsychotic drugs for children. Approvals were determined by Dr. Thomas Laughren after secret deliberations–without disclosure of scientific data, without an advisory panel or open public discussion. Continue reading →
Dr. Diane M. Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the humanpapilloma virus vaccine, who says giving the drug to 11-year-old girls "is a great big public health experiment."
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"it's an arms race between insurers, who deploy software and manpower trying to find claims they can reject, and doctors and hospitals, who deploy their own forces in an effort to outsmart or challenge the insurers. Continue reading →
