: Public Health Agency Tied to Chemical Industry_LAT
The LAT reports that the Center for Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction has been outsourcing the writing of its "scientific" reports to an industry consulting firm, Sciences International.
FDA Set to Approve Antibiotic for Cattle That Poses Catastrophic Threat_WashPost
Overshadowing all other health related news, a front page report in The Washington Post and the just released Breckenridge report evaluating FDA's abysmal performance on drug safety, http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/latest-report-blasts-fda-bungling-drug.html require Congressional action.
Latest Report Blasts FDA Bungling Drug Safety Tracking–Waste & 4-year Delay
FDA administrators "mishandled the initiative through bureaucratic infighting, flawed planning and duplicative work performed by outside contractors." The report estimates that agency administrators wasted $25 million on a computer system that won't be functional before 2009.
AACAP President Disingenuous RE: Psychiatric Drugs that Killed 4-year old
This young child represents millions of children in the United States who are falling prey to licensed, but irresponsible prescribers of toxic drugs.
Serotonin Syndrome: A Mix of Medicines That Can Be Lethal
“Catastrophic side effects may be rare, but they become predictable when we treat so many children with so many drugs.”
Counter-Detailing Anti-drug Reps Coming to Educate Doctors
The question is can these visits overcome industry's propaganda delivered under the guise of continuing medical education (CME) courses which physicians must take?
Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Off-Label Marketing & Harm Caused by Zyprexa
The deceptive marketing of antipsychotic drugs has prompted new advocacy group to launch "The Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs Campaign." Its goal is to get one million people to stop and reevaluate the medications they are taking.
On Psychological Positivism
A commentary in the April 2007 issue of HARVAD magazine, AHRP board member, Stefan Kruszeuski, MD, urges his colleagues to abandon psychiatry’s diagnostic and therapeutic reductionism.
Ex-FDA Chief Said Agency has Diminished Credibility on Drug Safety
Drug safety is a public issue–and the FDA has been shown to be asleep at the helm as tens of thousands have died that could have lived had they and their physicians known the safety hazards of prescribed drugs.
APC-Xigris Increasing Evidence of Bleeding
The shift from Hippocratic medicine grounded in the “do no harm” principle, to corporate medicine has severed the unique physician-patient relationship based on a tacit understanding that the physician’s reasoned therapeutic recommendations will be governed the patient’s best interest.
FDA Requires Added Warnings on ADHD drugs_Sweden’s “Gillberg Affair”
What does the "Gillberg affair" suggest about the integrity of the data underlying the DAMP-ADHD hypothesis?
“Real Men, Real Depression” Marketing Masquerading as Medical News_Newsweek
The pharmaceutical industry’s latest antidepression drug marketing campaign is being launched with collaboration of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) “Real Men, Real Depression campaign http://menanddepression.nimh.nih.gov/infopage.asp?ID=1