Three essays provide an overview of the bias that has debased the integrity of medical research literature while increasing the hazards of medical practice–for patients and doctors who are kept in the dark about prescribed treatment dangers.
Two probing first rate investigative reports document how psychiatry’s treatments are shaped by "opinion leaders" whose professional recommendations are compromised by their substantial, largely undisclosed, financial ties to drug companies.
An investigative report in Mercury News (below) focuses on Stanford University department heads, associate deans and other leaders because “these are senior people who set the tone at the medical school and are role models for junior faculty members.”
Dr. David Healy, a formidable critic of the iron grip pharmaceutical corporations wield on the practice of psychiatry as well as on psychiatry’s deficient journal reports, directs his criticism at drug regulators in an article in the current British Medical Journal (BMJ).
"Drug companies should not be allowed to evaluate their own products."
Yesterday we forwarded an article about Tylenol-linked liver damage published by Associated Press. https://ahrp.org/cms/content/view/278/28/
Below two recent reports by Counterpunch.
Agence France Presse reports that suicide rates in Russia have decreased. Not surprisingly the highest suicide rate in Russia is in Siberia.
Overreliance on toxic drugs is killing healthy people. And the FDA has done next to nothing to prevent drug-induced harm.
BBC reports: "TeGenero, a German pharmaceutical company, said it could not continue in business.Because of the fallout from the UK trial, it was impossible to attract investment, TeGenero said."
Reuters reports that a controlled double-blind trial testing Omega-3 Fatty acids in 28 depressed children (aged 6 to 12) found a positive treatment corrolation.
For almost two decades Eli Lilly has denied that evidence exists demonstrating that its antidepressant Prozac induced violence and suicidality.
In a historic and precedent-setting decision, the Alaska Supreme Court affirmed that the forced administration of psychotropic drugs to patients is unconstitutional!!! : http://psychrights.org/States/Alaska/CaseOne/MyersOpinion.pdf
