Congress to Probe NIH Conflict of Interest Policies
Congressional leaders have lost patience with the cat and mouse game being played by officials of the National Institutes of Health.
“The Check is in the Mail”- Lilly-Zyprexa settlement payments
8, 362 consumers of Lilly’s top-selling drug that produces diabetes–among other life-threatening effects–can expect between $5,000 to "well over $100,000 a person" depending upon the harm suffered.
OIG Report: FDA Fails to Monitor Adverse Safety Reports_BMJ–FDA Duplicity Exposed
Every federal oversight agency evaluating FDA’s safety performance has given the agency flunking grades. See:https://ahrp.org/cms/content/view/148/55/
A Cure for Public Distrust: Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeeper
The Times’ humorous profile of JAMA’s editor attempts to trivialize the threat to public health when journals fail to maintain the integrity of science-based medicine.
Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeepers
The harm done by journals’ failure to protect the integrity of science can hardly be overstated.
TGN1412 Deadly Drug Trial Victims Told To Expect Early Death
The full impact on six healthy volunteers who took part in a catastrophic experiment that nearly killed them is ever so slowly coming to light.
ADHD-Adderall Label Warnings Added Re: Cardiovascular, Psychosis
The American Society of Health System Pharmacists reports that the FDA "directed all makers of ADHD stimulants in May to strengthen the wording in the "Warnings" section of the labeling "with regard to serious cardiovascular events and psychiatric events."
Child Born with Severe Heart Birth Defects–Paxil Lawsuit Filed
The law firm of Baum Hedlund filed a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of the antidepressant, Paxil, for causing severe heart defects in the newborn son, of a woman prescribed Paxil during her pregnancy.
3 Suicides:Antidepressants involved: Chess Prodigy,19; lawyer, 50; child, 11
Antidepressants involved in three suicides: 19-year old Chess Prodigy; 50-year old lawyer; 11-year old child
NYT Editorial: Our Conflicted Medical Journals
Today’s New York Times editorial hits the mark–it’s right on target!
Psychiatrist criminally indicted: Promoting off-label use of drug for depression!
The New York Times reports that a Maryland psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Gleason, was handcuffed and arrested in March and charged with criminal promotion of a drug "for purposes other than those approved by the federal government."
Professor Roy Porter-Greatest Benefit to Mankind
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present , by Professor Roy Porter , Fontana, Press , 1997. Below are a few–still very relevant–quotes…