FDA SSRI Warning
" A causal role for antidepressants in inducing suicidality has been established in pediatric patients."
Medical Journal Editor Finds Truth Hard to Track Down
A front page report in The Wall Street Journal underscores the inherent flaw in the "peer review" vetting system used by science journals.
PhRMA-“The Karasik Conspiracy”–100 E-mails
The year 2005 will surely be the year in which the pharmaceutical industry’s
dirty tricks and underhanded tactics were revealed for what they are–a
menace to society.
Comments Re:13 year BMJ investigation of research misconduct
Responding to the AHRP Infomail–Medical Journal Editor Finds Truth Hard to
Track Down (December 27) Eddie Vos,* expert nutrition specialist offers
comments about the13-year ‘"investigation" of alleged research misconduct by
an Indian physician, as reported in the Wall Street Journal (December 27).
NIMH-funded antidepression drug efficacy / safety studies_What do they prove?
Two studies purporting to report “new encouraging” findings about the efficacy and safety of antidepressants—as tested in the “real world”—were published on Sunday by The American Journal of Psychiatry with an accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Insel, director of these studies’ funding agency, the National Institute of Mental Health.
News Splash 1
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
NIH Medical Safety Officer Reinstated
The National Institutes of Health's reinstatement of Dr. Jonathan Fishbein settles a two-year battle that prompted both congressional and federal investigations.
38 Senators–$13.4 mill pharma stock waive liability
On Tuesday evening, 38 U.S. Senators with about $13.4 million in pharmaceuticaql stock holdings approved a sweetheart deal absolving the drug / vaccine industry from liability .
Drugs, Devices & Doctors – NYT Paul Krugman
New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, got it right!
The real story behind the crisis at Merck, the Cleveland Clinic, and the medical industrial complex as a whole "is bigger than either the company or the clinic. It’s the story of how growing conflicts of interest may be distorting both medical research and health care in general."
Montreal Clinical Trial Subjects Expoxed to Tuberculosis
Bloomberg News published an update to its sensational special report: Big Pharma’s Shameful Secret
see: https://ahrp.org/infomail/05/11/03.php
National Plan for Universal Mental Health Screening:A Pharma Friendly Remedy for Societal Problems
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Slide 2: I’ll begin with the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health[1] recommendation to screen the US population for mental illness – 52 million children first. In no other democratic country has the government adopted a policy to screen the population for presumed, undetected, mental illness. The rationale behind this mind-boggling Orwellian nightmare is not improving mental health, but rather increasing life-long consumers of psychoactive drugs and to control behavior. Two NFC recommendations are designed to do just that. TeenScreen is promoted as a suicide prevention model when it in fact, increases the number of children labeled suicidal and depressed.
Gov Accountability Project Creates "FactSquad" on Rx Drugs
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…