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August 7, 2002 University of California Seeks to Ease Curbs on Patient Protection in Research – LA Times FYI Thanks to a series of articles, in the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times, the public has been made aware about the back-door efforts to pass a bill in California…
Public Ranks Drug Industry at Bottom With Oil, HMOs, Tobacco – Harris Poll Thu, 8 Jul 2004 The New York Times reports: “No industry has fallen as far or as fast in public esteem in recent years as the pharmaceutical industry, according to the Harris Poll.” The American public is…
Phrma found new market for psychotropic drugs: Toledo Zoo Wed, 14 Sep 2005 The Toledo Blade reports: “Now that humans have warmly embraced citizenship in the Prozac Nation, zoo animals are making tentative gallops, flights, and knuckle-walks into the world of psychotropic pharmaceuticals.” However, these drugs have nasty side effects…
Gov Accountability Project Creates “FactSquad” on Rx Drugs December 11, 2005 In the wake of the credibility crisis public trust in the safety of FDA-approved prescription drugs is eroded. The Government Accounability Project (GAP) has established a “Fact Squad” to challenge poor performance; in particular, FDA’s failure to protect the…
Nazi euthanasia files are made public – BMJ Fri, 17 Oct 2003 Documents pertaining to Nazi euthanasia–i.e., medically approved murder (1939-1944) have been concealed for half a century by the secret service of the former German Democratic Republic. Among the victims targeted for medical murder were mentally and physically disabled…
A must read article by Carl Elliott, MD, Ph.D in the Atlantic Monthly provides the best insight into how pharmaceutical drug reps operate and the milieu in which today’s physicians practice