Mental Health Screening: A Form of Child Abuse–Children Drugged Without Parental Consent Tue, 19 Apr 2005 The documented case report of Aliah Gleason, a 13 year old Texas school girl, provides shocking hard evidence revealing the true threat to children’s mental health and safety. The worst thing that can happen…
European Medicines Agency finalises review of antidepressants in children / adolescents Tue, 26 Apr 2005 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a press release recommending warnings about the increased risk of suicide attempts and hostility for children and adolescents prescribed an SSRI or SNRI antidepressant –and added warnings about…
Drug Warnings: Are They Effective? USA Today Tue, 26 Apr 2005 How effective are drug warnings? USA Today reports that experts are unsure. For example, a study in the January issue of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety focused on Ohio Medicaid claims for Rezulin prescriptions – the diabetes drug had been…
Researcher To Be Sacked After Reporting High Rates of ADHD – BMJ Sun, 10 Apr 2005 The BMJ reports that Dr. Gretchen LeFever, a clinical psychologist and professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, whose published reports (since 1995) have raised the alarm about a spiraling increase in elementary school children…
Supreme Court Decision On Right to Sue For Pesticide Harm Wed, 27 Apr 2005 Good news! The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that people who have been damaged by pesticides have the right to sue manufacturers of these poisons. Many of you will recall that the EPA wanted to conduct an…
Drugmakers Go Furthest to Sway Congress: 1,274 Lobbyists – USA Today Tue, 26 Apr 2005 USA Today provides a glimpse into the way the pharmaceutical industry controls health care policy by buying influence at the highest level of government, and underwriting professional and lay healthcare organizations whose spokespersons parrot industry’s…
Part II– Mental Health Screening: A Form of Child Abuse–Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/medicating_aliah.html enter subscriber code MJZL6Y Tue, 19 Apr 2005 This is a continuation of the earlier Infomail Re: Mental Health Screening expose by Rob Waters in Mother Jones – A detailed description of (what some would call) collusion by…
Pfizer Statements RE: Bextra, Celebrex, Neurontin Shown to be Lies Fri, 08 Apr 2005 The New York Times reports that “as recently as Tuesday [Pfizer] assured Wall Street that sales of Celebrex and Bextra would soon rebound. It was the latest in a string of announcements by the company regarding…
Judge Rules On Anthrax Vaccine Sun, 10 Apr 2005 In the latest ruling by a U.S. Federal court, judge, Emmet Sullivan, ruled that under the new Bioshield law, in an emergency the Pentagon is authorized to give experimental drugs and vaccines to service personnel. However, the judge ruled, the Defense…
FDA Requests Anticonvulsant Suicide Data Analysis – Boston Globe Wed, 20 Apr 2005 Thanks to the persistent advocacy efforts of attorney, Andrew Finkelstein, the FDA has finally sent letters to 14 manufacturers of anticonvulsant drugs, such as Pfizer’s Neurontin, to examine the suicide data from these drugs. Finkelstein began his…
Follow the Money / Can the Institute of Medicine Review the FDA? Wed, 6 Apr 2005 A letter to the editor published in Nature Medicine by Dr. Bernard Carroll, a past chairman of the FDA Advisory Committee for Psychotropic Drugs, and past chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke…
NGO Probe to Look at Foster Kids in AIDS Drug Trials – NYC Sat, 23 Apr After a year of stonewalling, the New York City Administration for Children’s Services has announced that it would seek “an independent review” of the AIDS drug trials that were conducted on children in the…
