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UK’s Elderly Care Plan Run by US “Cheats” Tue, 12 Nov 2002 Healthcare fraud is bankrupting the American healthcare system, and leaving 41.2 million Americans without healthcare insurance because the cost is so high. British newspapers–The Observer and The Guardian–report that the UK government has hired United Healthcare, a US…
“The scariest thing is that nobody knows” risks of depression drugs for children Mon, 10 May 2004 Forest Laboratories, manufacturer of the antidepressant, Celexa / Lexapro, is the latest manufacturer to issue warnings (April 2004) about the possibility that “patients with major depressive disorder, both adult and pediatric, may experience…
CHEERS pesticide experiment on children is CANCELLED Fri, 8 Apr 2005 AHRP has just been informed by Senator Barbara Boxer’s staff that the EPA pesticide experiment on children has been CANCELLED That’s one important victory — Stay tuned… Vera Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav 212-595-8974
Prozac in Drinking Water / Prozac in Streams Hurt Frogs fish / Newborns suffer Withdrawal Tue, 10 Aug 2004 An article in the UK Observer–“Stay calm everyone, there’s Prozac in the drinking water” (below) — reports that British environmentalists are calling for an “urgent investigation into the revelations, describing the…
Worldwide Drug Industry Ailing – PhaRMA Giants Reeling Blockbuster Drugs Found Hazardous Sat, 18 Dec 2004 Daily headlines provide confirmatory evidence supporting what critics of the drug industry have been say:ing for years. First, as The New York Times notes in one of its 4 articles about the latest “unexpected”…
Debate: Ethics of Surgically Implanting Drug Device in psychiatric patients Wed, 5 Nov 2003 An AHRP Infomail (October 7, 2003) criticizing the ethics of University of Pennsylvania’s planned surgical “drug implant” experiment in psychiatric patients, prompted a debate between AHRP president, Vera Sharav, and bioethicist, Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., University…