From the Los Angeles Times THE NATION Suicide Rate Down in the Era of Prozac Numbers have declined since a 1980s peak when such drugs came into use, a study finds. A skeptic says gun laws might be the cause. By Alan Zarembo Times Staff Writer February 3, 2005 The…
NIH to Ban Consulting Deals With Drug Firms – LAT / NYT Tue, 1 Feb 2005 Thanks to the investigative reports by David Willman in the Los Angeles Times, shedding light on secret financial ties by sernior scientists at the National Instiutes of Health, the public gained insight into the…
Corporate Welfare Runs Amok – NYT Editorial Sun, 30 Jan 2005 The administration has gone another step toward doing away with corporate taxes – by offering a “tax holiday” to America’s richest multinationals. The 35% corporate tax rate is being winnowed down to the “puny rate” of 5.25% for corporations…
Peter R. Breggin, M.D. 101 East State Street, No. 112 Ithaca, New York 14850 www.breggin.com Phone: 607 272 5328 Fax: 607 272 5329 January 12, 2005 An Examination of Eli Lilly and Company’s Contentions that the BMJ Prozac Documents were Never Missing and Have No Significance A report by Peter…
Bad Medicine: A Gift for Drug Makers–Malpractice Bill Shields Drugmakers Sat, 15 Jan 2005 Knowledgable critics – among them practicing physicians, health care analysts, medical journal editors, journalists, and lay citizens–have reached the conclusion that America’s for-profit health care system – which eats up 16% of the budget–has failed to…
Doctors, Too, Ask: Is This Drug Right? Thu, 30 Dec 2004 Much to their professional embarassment, doctors are finding that they have been fed a pack of lies by smooth talking pharmaceutical company sales reps, who persuaded them that the new, and (always) more expensive drugs provided a greater benefit…
What’s a Patient to Think? Prescription for Confusion – NY Times Editorial Tue, 28 Dec 2004 At long last, The New York Times has validated the well-placed anger and frustration that patients feel at having their trust in medicine and the nation’s oversight agents betrayed: “Now I just don’t trust…
Children’s Mental Health in the 108th Congress: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Wed, 15 Dec 2004 AHRP board member, Dr. Karen Effrem, provides a succinct overview of actions – the good, the bad, and the ugly–taken by the 108th Congress will have an impact on children’s health and…
Sen Grassley to Offer Mandatory Drug Data Registry Bill Fri, 10 Dec 2004 AHRP applauds Senator Chuck Grassley for spearheading legislation that will require pharmaceutical companies to register ALL drug trials and report their results in a public database. Given the record of deception and concealment of adverse data, anything…
Despite Accutane Suicide Risk, Judge Refuses to make company Memos Public Mon, 31 Jan 2005 Judge James Moody, A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, ruled against plaintiff lawyers who sought to share internal documents belonging to Hoffman-LaRoche that show the company knew about the increased suicide risk associated with the…
Free Academic Drug Tests – NYT Editorial Delivers Fatal Blow to Leaders of Psychiatry Tue, 30 Nov 2004 Today’s editorial in The New York Times is a follow-up to yesterday’s solid report by Barry Meier, that focused on the culpability of academic researchers and their prestigious medical institutions in undermining…
Contracts Keep Drug Research Findings Concealed – NY Times Mon, 29 Nov 2004 I. A front page article in the New York Times focuses on academia’s role (culpability) in keeping mum about the unpublished antidepressant clinical trial results. The unnamed focus of the article is the industry-supported American College of…
