Infomail Archive – Pre 2003
News Stories on Human Research Protection and
Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav
December 28, 2002: Will 2 to 5 year old Amer. kids be exposed to Smallpox Vaccine? Israeli Intelligence says “No immediate threat”
December 24, 2002: Moral turpitude: Herpes experiment surpasses Tuskegee
December 20, 2002: FDA approves anti-psychotic, clozapine, to treat suicide
December 16, 2002: Former President of Amer Heart Assoc Caught in Fraud
December 15, 2002: NY Times Preschool Meds
December 14, 2002: Former President of Amer Heart Assoc Caught in Fraud – BMJ
December 13, 2002: Ethics Questioned in Lung Disease Trial–Feds Demand Patient Data – Newhouse News
December 10, 2002: Patient vs. Portfolio: ImClone_Salon
December 9, 2002: Patient vs. Portfolio: ImClone – Salon
December 6, 2002: When Doctors Go to Class, Industry Often Foots the Bill – WSJ
December 5, 2002: Japan Links 81 Deaths to new Lung Cancer Drug
December 5, 2002: Vaccine Renaissance Outpaces Drug Industry
December 5, 2002: Smallpox Vaccine Reactions Jolt Experts – WashPost
December 4, 2002: GAO Found CDC Supervision of Bioagents Weak
December 3, 2002: Science Reporters Don’t Notice Conflicts of Interest
December 2, 2002: Comments re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2-5 year old children
November 27, 2002: US Gov Asks Court to Seal Vaccine Records
November 26, 2002: Anthrax Vaccine Damage Done – London Times
November 24, 2002: Portrait of a Heroine: Shouting the Pain from Japan’s Germ Attacks
November 23, 2002: Corruption in drug research – NYT; Corruption in Medicine – BMJ
November 22, 2002: Tonight PBS Is Science for Sale?
November 21, 2002: NIH sponsored hypertension trial incites controversy: COI
November 20, 2002: More CDC Dirty Work re: ANTHRAX Vaccine – Meryl Nass, MD
November 19, 2002: Homeland Security Bill – Eli Lilly Man in Bush Cabinet
November 18, 2002: Critical GAO Report Belies Safety of Anthrax Vaccine – Insight
November 17, 2002: Schizophrenia Drug Implants May Qualify as Medical Torture
November 16, 2002: NY Times Whitewashes Ritalin Experiment in Preschool Kids
November 15, 2002: Homeland Security bill – Pharma Immunity – WP
November 14, 2002: Dying for a Cure: Pediatric Cancer Trial Undisclosed facts – NBC, Chicago
November 12, 2002: UK’s Elderly Care Plan Run by US “Cheats”
November 11, 2002: Canadian Lawsuit:Autism-Vaccine – Maclean’s
November 10, 2002: Vaccines the culprit – Not-So-Crackpot Autism Theory – NYT
November 8, 2002: Investigative series finds kids drugged without cause – Journal News
November 4, 2002: High Mortality Rates in Clinical Trials
November 3, 2002: Presidential Panel: Mental Health System Dysfunctional
November 2, 2002: 2 to 5 year old children targeted for Smallpox Vaccine trial_DHHS
October 30, 2002: Advisory Panel: What Protections for Children, fetuses, embryos?
October 29, 2002: Police recruit volunteers to binge on drugs-alcohol_ WSJ
October 29, 2002: Documents Show Drug Company Promotion of Unproven Drug_NYT
October 28, 2002: Research Protection: SCIENCE / Fed Paper
October 28, 2002: Abortion Pill Tested in clinical Trials for Severe Depression_NYT
October 27, 2002: Duke Survey Clinical trials: Research Conflicts of Interest Violate ethical Guidelines_UPI
October 25, 2002: Lawsuits & press info RE: SSRI addiction / suicide risk–not scientific literature
October 24, 2002: Conflicts of Interest Rampant in Medical Research – NEJM / News Tribune (Wash)
October 23, 2002: GAO Report critical of anthrax vaccine
October 22, 2002: Drug Testing Debate – Parenting Mag 4 Pt. Series
October 21, 2002: AHRP Press Release Children Policy Recommendations
October 18, 2002: Court Strikes Down FDA Pediatric Rule
October 18, 2002: Pediatric Drug Tests – CNN / NYT Editorial
October 16, 2002: Director of OHRP Dr. Greg Koski resigns
October 11, 2002: Seroxat (known as Paxil in the USA) is the subject of a major BBC-TV documentary
October 10, 2002: Smallpox Vaccine: Doctor Lists 18 Points You Should Consider – Redflags weekly
October 9, 2002: US Troops Were Subjected to Wider Toxic Testing_NYT
October 9, 2002: Smallpox Vaccine plan: HHS Messengers Still Stumble
October 8, 2002: Last Journey of Artificial Heart Recipient – NYT
October 7, 2002: Opposition to Smallpox Vaccine Plan
October 7, 2002: Drug Test Loopholes
October 4, 2002: Serious Adverse Reaction in Gene Therapy- France & US Halt Trials
October 3, 2002: IOM Panel Misses the Point Test Subjects
October 2, 2002: Ecstasy- Long-lasting brain damage and may trigger Parkinson’s – BBC
September 30, 2002: Ritalin Outrage: Congress_ Big Media Under the Influence of Big Drugs
September 28, 2002: Smallpox Vaccine to be tested in children – why hasn’t CDC released their vaccine data?
September 27, 2002: Is This Permissible Medical Research?
September 27, 2002: NIMH director blames HMOs for ADHD-Ritalin problem_NYPost
September 25, 2002: NIH suspended ARDS Lung experiment in Aug / AHRP filed complaint re: ARDS in July
September 25, 2002: NY Post Prompts Cong Hearings re: Children prescribed Ritalin
September 24, 2002: Students call for ouster of researcher – AAMC COI guidelines
September 23, 2002: Mental Health System called “Snake Pit” – Editorial WJN
September 20, 2002: Pilots/ Children prescribed addictive stimulant drugs – “go pills” / “no go pills” – Christian Sci Monitor
September 19, 2002: Kids are “hot ticket” in Rx drug market
September 15, 2002: BioMedNet: FDA Divorces Chemistry from Biology
September 9, 2002: Human Pesticide Experiment: The Slippery Slope – Sunday Herald
September 6, 2002: Dr. Arif Kahn analysis of Psych drug Trials Reveals High Suicide risk
September 5, 2002: OHRP Backtracks on Public Disclosure – Bureau of National Affairs
September 5, 2002: Do the Ends Justify the Means in Human Research?
September 3, 2002: Columbine shooting victim sues Solvay Pharmaceuticals – Insight Magazine
September 2, 2002: South Carolina Judges Voted to Ban Secret Court Settlements
August 29, 2002: Anti-malaria drug: Risk of Suicide – UPI
August 26, 2002: OHRP Retreats from Providing Public Info re: Compliance Activities
August 26, 2002: Integrity in Scientific Research : Peer review ineffective – Institute of Medicine / Lancet / Science
August 22, 2002: Three Questionable FDA policies: drug factory inspection rules/ clinical trials/ Paxil ads
August 20, 2002: Medical Science Violating Children – 450 healthy children targeted – redflagsweekly
August 14, 2002: Neil Bush: “My Son Was A Victim of School Rx: Ritalin” – NY Post
August 7, 2002: University of California Seeks to Ease Curbs on Patient Protection in Research – LA Times
July 29, 2002: University of California, San Francisco: Patients Rights Violated
July 26, 2002: Cancer Trials: 60% to 70% of subjects are children
July 26, 2002: 2,610 Infants died of preventable hospital-acquired infections
July 25, 2002: US Drug Usage Explodes_327% increase in Children
July 23, 2002: Unhealthy Hospitals – 103,000 preventable deaths in 2000
July 21, 2002: Media interviews Dr. Meryl Nass re: anthrax vaccine and anthrax attacks
July 20, 2002: 16-Year-Old Boy Gets Prozac in Mail
July 18, 2002: Anthrax Vaccine Not Safe and Effective – Emergency Medicine News
July 16, 2002: Genetic Testing Raises Tough Ethical Questions
July 15, 2002: Short Drug Tests, Fatal Flaws. Thomas J. Moore. Op Ed. Boston Globe
July 14, 2002: Corporate influence on medicine, budgets & investors
July 12, 2002: Babies Exposed to Toxic Vaccines
July 12, 2002: Scientifically unsupportable treatments: Hormone replacement therapy and anti-depression drugs
July 12, 2002: Duke Warning: Zyprexa-Diabetes Link
July 10, 2002: Hormone Replacement “Bombshell” is Not and isolated incident
July 9, 2002: Oregonian Editorial: Stop Drug Research on Oregon Kids
July 8, 2002: Critique: U.S. to Vaccinate 500,000 Workers Against Smallpox (7/7/02)
June 13, 2002: When Money Corrupts Medicine – Deaths Occur
June 5, 2002: APA Under the Influence of PhaRma
May 31, 2002: Children in "Hot Demand" for Clinical Trials
May 30, 2002: Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit & the Public Health – ABC News
May 23, 2002: FDA -Conflicts of Interest to be expanded – Washington Post
May 21, 2002: Bitter Pill for David Healy: academia under pharma influence
May 15, 2002: Harvard President Laments Chinese Study – Boston Globe
May 13, 2002: Experimentation on Newborns: Is it Ethical?
April 22, 2002: Scientific Misconduct Notices
April 19, 2002
DHHS / FDA flip-flop second time re: " pediatric rule"
April 17, 2002
Scandal: Scientists Take Cash for Ghostwritten Papers
April 16, 2002
Do Risk Factors Necessarily Lead to Disease?
April 15, 2002
Bill Would Enable Californians to Earn Easy Money by Consigning Relatives to Medical Experimentation
April 14, 2002
Clinical Trials Given "At Your Own Risk"
April 12, 2002
If Placebo Works Without Risk, Side-Effects or Cost — Why Prescribe Anti-Depressant Drugs?
April 10a, 2002
U.S. Bio-Tech Start-ups Conducting Cheap Preliminary Studies in China
April 10, 2002
For Relief of Severe Depression, Study Shows No Significance Difference Among Placebo, Zoloft and St. Johns Wort — JAMA
April 9, 2002
Debate on Value of Screening Tests for Cancer
April 8, 2002
Testing Drugs On children: A Collision of Interests
April 7, 2002
Lancet: Just How Tainted Has Medicine Become?
April 2, 2002
Francis Fukuyama: Don’t Alter Human Nature
March 31, 2002
Harvard research jeopardized the welfare of disadvantaged Chinese people while violating federal regulations.
March 25, 2002
Federal Office of Human Research Protection has not been an adequate enforcer of federal ethics and safety standards.
March 16, 2002
Ethics of Physician/Industry Relationships
March 15a, 2002
Harm to Alzheimer Experimental Patients
March 15, 2002
Seattle Times Reports 6 More Families Sue Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
March 13, 2002
Coroner calls for withdrawal of Seroxat (PAXIL)
March 8, 2002
FDA and Pharmaceutical Industry in Private Deal to Speed Drug Approval Process
March 5, 2002
Placebo Trials and Tribulations
March 5a, 2002
American Scientific Misconduct America Undercuts Meaningful AIDS Research by the French
March 4, 2002
Mind Drugs May Hinder Recovery
March 1, 2002
Anti-Depressant Drug Trials are Rigged
February 27, 2002
EPA Halts Human Pesticide Tests
February 26, 2002
Severe Side Effects Reported for Clozaril
February 22, 2002
Alzheimer’s Drug Tests Halted When 12 Volunteers Contract Encephalitis
February 21, 2002
Influencing Doctors: How Pharmaceutical Companies Use Enticement to "Educate" Doctors (Contains only the link to another site.)
February 20, 2002
How the mental health system has impeded patients’ road to recovery by stripping them of their humanity
February 19, 2002
How a New FDA Policy Led to Seven Deadly Drugs
February 19a, 2002
INSANE PSYCHIATRY: A Profession Run Amok
February 18, 2002
The Fred Hutchison Center in Seattle WA has failed three FDA inspections
February 18a, 2002
United States Government Sponsored Genetic Research in rural China Raises Troubling Ethical Concerns
February 18b, 2002
New Research Finding Threatens Sleeping Pill Sales
February 13, 2002
In Search of the Anthrax Attacker by Meryl Nass, MD
January 7, 2002
MAD IN AMERICA – important new book
June 11, 2001
“Monster Experiment” taught orphans to stutter
July 25, 2001
Bioethics and Big Bucks – US NEWS
July 21, 2001: Government Agency Caves in to Johns Hopkins pressure
July 19, 2001: OHRP suspends Johns Hopkins Research license for Fed funded research
July 17, 2001: Johns Hopkins Admits Fault in Fatal Experiment
December 20, 2000: Harvesting China’s Blood- Washington Post
July 14, 2000: New FDA Warning about fatal risk linked to Melaril after 40 years
May/June, 2000: Prozac Revisited: Concerns About Suicides Surface – Boston Globe