September 30, 2006

A front page article in The New York Times (below) reports: "Bayer A.G., theGerman pharmaceutical giant, failed

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FDA Says Bayer Failed to Reveal Lethal Drug Risks–but Fails to Change Licensure or Label_NYT

September 30, 2006

An article by pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, the author of “A Map of the Child: A

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Pediatric Cardiologist Explains: The crucial health stat you’ve never heard of_Slate

September 27, 2006

In this experiment, all six previously healthy young male volunteers (aged 19 to 34) nearly died after

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UK Chanel 4 Investigates: The Drug Trial That Went Wrong_Critique NEJM Editorial

September 27, 2006

Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D. Volunteers at Risk, EDITORIALTHE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE vol 355 Sept. 7,

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Volunteers at Risk_Editorial, NEJM Justifies Catastrophic TGN1412 Experiment

September 22, 2006

Success in academic psychiatry is not measured in the improvement of patients' mental health, but rather in

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2 letters Re: Dr. Nemeroff Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest_WSJ

September 22, 2006

The report fully validates the concern expressed by critics of the agency who have watched in horror

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IOM Report Faults FDA Drug-Safety Process

September 19, 2006

During the Reagan era, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was described by (then) Secretary of Health

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NIH A House of Ill Repute–Scientists for Sale While on Gov Payroll

September 14, 2006

This industry’s ethics standards have more in common with illegal business operations than with legitimate, law abiding

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Pharma Corrupt Practices_Glaxo / Bristol-Myers_Drug-induced Deaths / Homicides

September 12, 2006

Following a series of investigative reports by Paul Jacobs in The San Jose Mercury News, documenting financial

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Stanford University to Ban Free Lunch but Not Consultancies

September 12, 2006

Critics have argued that second generation antidepressants—the SSRIs and SNRIs—are hugely over prescribed in large part due

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Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law_PLoS

September 11, 2006

The LA Times notes that "U.S. conflict-of-interest law prohibits a federal employee from representing an outside party

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NIH Calls it “Serious Miscondcut” Yet Agency Takes No Disciplinary actions_LA Times

September 6, 2006

“Every prescription medicine you take is tested on humans before it’s approved for sale and use by

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PBS: “Bitter Pill” Based on Bloomberg Pharma’s Shameful Secret Report Airs on Friday 9/8

September 3, 2006

Psychiatry’s most powerful and influential key opinion leaders who belong to the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)

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Psychiatry’s Most Powerful Association Feeling the Heat_SCIENCE

September 1, 2006

Noting how different medicine is today from the iconic Marcus Welby, MD, was practicing (on television, 1969

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Curing medical mistakes–Change the Culture of Care_ Robert Wachter, MD