Should the EPA Accept Human Pesticide Experiments?

Testimony by Vera Hassner Sharav before the Committee on the Use of Third Party Toxicity Research with Human Research Participants; Science, Technology, and Law Program; The National Academies of Science Committee on the Use of Third Party Toxicity Research with Human Research Participants

My name is Vera Sharav and I am the president and founder of The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) a citizens’ watchdog organization monitoring human research to ensure that the moral principles enshrined in the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki are preserved and followed in experiments involving human beings.

Infomail Archive Pre 2003

Infomail Archive – Pre 2003 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav December 28, 2002: Will 2 to 5 year old Amer. kids be exposed to Smallpox Vaccine? Israeli Intelligence says “No immediate threat” December 24, 2002: Moral turpitude: Herpes experiment surpasses Tuskegee December 20,…

Moral turpitude: Herpes experiment surpasses Tuskegee

Moral turpitude: Herpes experiment surpasses Tuskegee. December 24, 2002. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded St. Louis University, close to $37 million to conduct an investigational herpes vaccine trial (Herpevac) on young women. The experiment demonstrates that the moral culture in which American medical researchers practice…

FDA approves anti-psychotic, clozapine, to treat suicide

FDA approves anti-psychotic, clozapine, to treat suicide December 20, 2002 The first of the so-called atypical antipsychotic drugs, clozapine (Clozaril), has been approved by the FDA as a treatment against suicide in patients with schizophrenia. The drug has been hailed as a miracle for some, but deadly for others. The…

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NY Times Preschool Meds December 15, 2002 How, one wonders, do the editors of The New York Times Magazine define what’s “fit to print”? Does bias toward promoting increased drug use while avoiding disclosure of conflicts of interest enter the editors’ decision-making process? Below is a letter to the editor…

Former President of Amer Heart Assoc Caught in Fraud – BMJ

Former President of Amer Heart Assoc Caught in Fraud – BMJ December 14, 2002 The British Medical Journal reports about the FDA took action against American cardiologist Dr. David Faxon, immediate past president of the American Heart Association for medical ethics violations, such as: falsification of data, false claims about…

Ethics Questioned in Lung Disease Trial–Feds Demand Patient Data – Newhouse News

Ethics Questioned in Lung Disease Trial–Feds Demand Patient Data – Newhouse News December 13, 2002 A news breaking story by Bruce Seeman of Newhouse News (excerpts below) reveals a major systemic breakdown in medical ethics–“there’s something rotten in the state of [biomedical research].” Complaints about a lung disease air ventilation…

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THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Tel. 212-595-8974               142 West End Ave Suite 28P               FAX: 212-595-9086 New York, NY 10023 www.ahrp.org December 5, 2002 Mr. Edward Swindell Acting Associate General Counsel for Ethics Office of General Counsel, Ethics Division Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Ave. SW…

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THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Tel. 212-595-8974             142 West End Ave Suite 28P                     FAX: 212-595-9086 New York, NY 10023 www.ahrp.org December 5, 2002 Mr. Edward Swindell Acting Associate General Counsel for Ethics Office of General Counsel, Ethics Division Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence…

AHRP Comments on Smallpox Vaccine Testing on Children 2 to 5 Years of Age

Recent public and professional debate about smallpox vaccine and its risks provides the framework for evaluating the ethical justification for conducting clinical trials on children. Dryvax is a particularly impure product made of live vaccinia virus harvested from the pustules of calves infected with (it is believed) cowpox. Although the vaccine, which is scratched on the skin, only causes mild infections in most people, in a small but significant number the infection caused serious adverse reactions similar to the complications of the disease they were designed to prevent: painful, disfiguring skin disorders, blindness, neurological impairments and death.