The dust-up involving Dr. Charles Nemeroff and Dr. Thomas Insell, director of NIMH shines a light on NIH leaders whose failure to enforce federal disclosure requirements is brushed off with excuses so untenable they have the ring of theater of the absurd.
"Dr. Nemeroff has become the poster child for what’s wrong with academic medicine in our country." Dr. Thomas Insell, Director of the NIMH, quietly helped him get a prized position at the University of Miami.
A stunning admission of failure by major drug manufacturers who market drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. "We really believe drugs are failing because we honestly don’t understand the disease."
Despite the fact that children may be at highest risk of antidepressant-induced suicide, GlaxoSmithKline is testing Paxil on 7 to 18 year old Japanese children.
"The resulting frenzy of psychiatric diagnoses has damaged the credibility of everyone in the field."
Physicians for Human Rights is the first group to argue that the presence of medical personnel who monitored the CIA’s use of torture on detainees–e.g., waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other "enhanced" interrogation techniques–rendered these medical professionals complicit in lending support to interrogation practices that were intentionally harmful.
An authoritative report by the President’s Cancer Panel, validates the concerns of independent critics who have warned about the serious health hazards posed by toxic chemicals which are blamed for the alarming rates of cancer.
“The way Dr. Punjwani treated Emilio Villamar and the manner in which these drugs were prescribed is a picture of everything that’s wrong with this industry and the relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies.”
“The age of American children being medicated with prescription psychiatric drugs is getting younger and more widespread every year.”
NAMI’s Pharma Funders – Serial Off-label Promoter Astrazeneca Tops the List
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) until recently was reluctant to reveal the source of its funding. But thanks to Sen. Grassley we now can learn NAMI’s sources for Major Foundation and Corporate Support.
Future generations who will examine current public polices pertaining to the care of children, will deem the United States of America morally bankrupt .
