Guidant Case May Involve Crime Inquiry Thu, 29 Sep 2005 The New York Times reports that “criminal investigators at the Food and Drug Administration have apparently become involved in the agency’s inquiry into how the Guidant Corporation handled problems with its heart devices, said two people contacted by the investigators."…
SC Supreme Court To Hear Christopher Pittman Appeal Thu, 1 Sep 2005 This just in from Miracles Of Hope Network New York – Chicago – Paris – Hollywood – Washington DC – Atlanta – Las Vegas The South Carolina Supreme Court has by-passed the Court of Appeals and will hear…
Doctor Chides Medical Societies to Take Action – GSK Fined $150 Million in Medicare Fraud Wed, 21 Sep 2005 The latest in a series of fraud settlements, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $150 million to settle fraud allegations over inflating price of Zorfran and Kytril (nausea drugs) when billing Medicare…
$95 billion a year spent on medical research in US – JAMA Fri, 23 Sep 2005 A special issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, focuses on medical research spending and findings. A study that examined US spending for medical research—$95 billion approaching $100 billion–57% is spent…
Phrma found new market for psychotropic drugs: Toledo Zoo Wed, 14 Sep 2005 The Toledo Blade reports: “Now that humans have warmly embraced citizenship in the Prozac Nation, zoo animals are making tentative gallops, flights, and knuckle-walks into the world of psychotropic pharmaceuticals.” However, these drugs have nasty side effects…
Eli Lilly Wants Insurers to Pay $1 billion in Zyprexa claims – AP Tue, 13 Sep 2005 The Associated Press reported that Eli Lilly is trying to pass the buck to insurers– In addition to the $700 million Lilly agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit over the company having…
FDA acknowledges failure to act as defibrillator malfunction increased: 4,225 failed between 2000–2003 Sat, 17 Sep 2005 The Washington Post reports that the number of failed heart defibrillators is increasing: “William H. Maisel, the Harvard Medical School physician who conducted the FDA study, said the increase is significant and contrasts…
Use of combinations of antipsychotics–Harms Patients: McLean & Leipzig Wed, 21 Sep 2005 Two additional studies provide additional evidence (coffin nails) demonstrating how psychiatry’s marriage of convenience gave birth to rotten fruit: specifically, under the influence of pharmaceutical companies, psychiatry plunged irresponsibly into practicing polypsychoparmacology. The evidence from these studies…
Selling Sickness: Pharma Industry Turning Us All Into Patients Mon, 12 Sep 2005 Related Link: Selling Sickness Prologue Selling Sickness: How the World’s Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients, by Ray Moynihan, an international health journalist, and Alan Cassels, a pharmaceutical policy researcher, is likely to become a…
Suspended Chief Medical Officer of Medicare reassigned to AHRQ Wed, 21 Sep 2005 An example of how little the federal government cares about professinal standards or the integrity of high ranking medical offficers. Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav 212-595-8974 Daily Health Policy Report Kaiser Network Suspended CMS Chief Medical Officer Tunis…
Physician Attacks AHRP for Criticizing EPA CHEERS Pesticide Experiment on Children Fri, 16 Sep 2005 AHRP’s opposition to EPA’s proposed rules on human pesticide experiments–in particular rules that would allow children to be subjected to pesticide experiments–was criticized by a physician who accuses those opposed to the infamous CHEERS experiment,…
Paxil Protest at GSK US headquarters Sept. 26–Sept. 28 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 Families and victims who have suffered harm from SSRI antidepressants are heading for Philadelphia from the US and Canada for a “Paxil Protest.” Date: September 26 through Sept. 28. Place: GlaxoSmithKline US headquarters in Philadelphia The organizer of this event is…
