India: Guinea Pig to the World_Wired Mag
The pharmaceutical industry’s dilemma: there are few volunteers in the drug-consuming prosperous countries–so they have taken half their business to underdeveloped countries.
The Ball is in their court–Is FDA preparing to drop it?
On Wednesday, the FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee handed the agency a mixed message regarding warnings about selective list of
psychotropic drugs prescribed for treating ADHD symptoms.
National Class Action Filed against Drug-maker for Paxil-induced Suicides in Youths
Below a press release from the lawfirm, Baum Hedlund, announces it has filed a class action lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline charging the company with fraud, negligence, strict liability, and breach of warranty in its marketing of Paxil (Seroxat) by concealing the risk of suicide.
AHRP Recommends FDA Actions to Protect Children Rx ADHD drugs
AHRP Urges Actions to Minimize Risks for Children prescribed psychotropic drugs: Action is needed to protect children from widespread prescribing of psychoactive drugs for ill-defined behavioral symptoms.
Poison Chalice–TGN1412_Sunday Times UK
All six healthy volunteers near death from catastrophic experiment–TGN1412.
2.5 Million US Children Prescribed Antipsychotics_ FDA ADHD–ADR Review
The Associated Press reports that a just released study that found that a staggering, two and half million children in the U.S. are being prescribed antipsychotics annually–that’s 40 out of every 1,000 children.
FDA Review ADHD Drugs Induce-Psychosis, Mania, Homicide, Suicide
Psychiatric Adverse Events Associated with Drug Treatment of ADHD: Review of Postmarketing Safety Data
Six Healthy Volunteers in Phase I Drug Trial-Critically Ill_UK
The Phase I trial–the first in humans–was set up by US drug research company Parexel International Corp on behalf of German pharmaceutical company TeGenero.
FDA Psychopharm Advisory Chair Acknowledges No Evidence for SSRI Chemical Imbalance Claims_CMAJ
"Biological psychiatrists have looked very closely for a serotonin imbalance or dysfunction in patients with depression or obsessive compulsive disorder and, to date, it has been elusive," says Dr. Wayne Goodman, Chair of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee.
Grassley to HHS Secretary: OHRP calls Blood Experiment UNETHICAL, Unapprovable
In a blistering letter addressed to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Senator Grassley calls upon Michael Leavitt to give “immediate attention” to the serious issues raised by a Northfield Laboratory, non-consensual artificial blood experiment.
TeenScreen – “Under Intense Criticism Nationally”
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports (below): "TeenScreen, developed by a Columbia University professor, has come under intense criticism nationally."
Out of Control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science
OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS and the corruption of medical science, By Celia Farber in the current issue of Harper’s magazine.