A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal, hard-edged legendary execlutive editor of The New York Times, died. He is credited with transforming the paper from its genteel "white glove" approach of reporting the news which avoided offending the establishment.
A documented report by David Armstrong of The Wall Street Journal (below) shatters the last glimmer of illusion about The New England Journal of Medicine as a bastion of scientific and moral integrity.
An investigative report in The Hartford Courant will undoubtedly lead to a Congressional investigation.
The report reveals that mentally unstable soldiers are being deployed to the Iraq front in violation of federal law.
GlaxoSmithKline Reverses Decade of Denial: in Clinical Trials Paxil Triggered Significantly More Suicide Attempts in Adults than Placebo
ABC News reports that antipsychotic drugs are being tested on toddlers at Harvard University affiliate hospital, Massachusetts General Children’s Hospital. Post your comments at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/tots_used_as_hu.html
Good news! The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Merit Systems Proteciton Board ruled in favor of extending whistleblower protection to ALL government doctors, including those hired under Title 42.
This is an action alert to prevent the abuse of children who are sought as guinea pigs in HIV-AIDS vaccine trials!
The Washington Post reveals that a shocking secret investigative report by a Nigerian government panel of medical experts concluded that Pfizer Pharmaceuticals conducted an unethical drug experiment in Nigeria in 1996.
"There is virtually no scientific evidence that the procedure, which involves inflating a small balloon in the sinus cavity, actually works."
Congress is finally addressing a rip-off by scientists who redeive taxpayer money and don’t show their findings to the public.
“The sale of the master file to drug companies hands the weapon to the drug company that the A.M.A. is saying is an illicit weapon."
"I trusted the doctors, I trusted the FDA … and I feel betrayed by both," says Erin Evans, the mother of Rex who was prescribed the ‘atypical’ antipsychotic, Risperdal (risperidone) at age 8.
