Two Court Rulings Reject Pfizer-FDA Preemption Claim in Zoloft "failure to warn" cases

Two Court Rulings Reject Pfizer-FDA Preemption Claim in Zoloft “failure to warn” cases Thu, 21 Jul 2005 In a stunning federal court order JAMES M. ROSENBAUM, US Chief District Judge in Minnesota, overturned FDA-supported pre-emption arguments in their entirety! “The FDA has no authority to declare, ipse dixit, that a…

Sen Domenici Blasts NIH doctors calling them "pigs" – The Hill

Sen Domenici Blasts NIH doctors calling them “pigs” – The Hill Thu, 18 Mar 2004 The shameful revelations of insatiable greed among medical researchers at the National Institutes of Health has disgusted Sen. Pete Domenici, one of the strongest supporters of medical research. “I hate to say it, but the…

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BBC 2: Guinea Pig Kids: Vulnerable NYC foster children forced to test AIDS drugs

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 Tonight the BBC- 2 is airing an investigative report about a series of drug experiments that were conducted on infants and children who were under the guardianship of the New York City Agency for Children’s Services (ACS), and living at Incarnation Children’s Center, a foster care…

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Complaint: Phase I AIDS Drug/Vaccine Experiment on Foster Children

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION Homepage 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 March 10, 2004 Dr. Michael Carome Chief of Compliance Office of Human Research Protections David Horowitz Director, Office of Compliance Food & Drug Administration Dept. of Health and Human Services cc: Dr. Bernard Schwetz,…

AHRP Calls for Federal Investigation of Drug Trials Using Children in Foster Care

RE: Phase I Drug trials used foster children in violation of 45 CFR 46.409 and 21 CFR 50.56

The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) has reason to believe that federal regulations for the protection of children as research subjects have been seriously violated in federally funded HIV research.

We have learned that a series of Phase I and Phase II drug experiments were conducted on infants and children who were under the guardianship of the New York City Agency for Children’s Services (ACS), and living at Incarnation Children’s Center, a foster care facility under contract with ACS.

TeenScreen – Angel of Mercy or Pill-Pusher for Drug Industry

TeenScreen – Angel of Mercy or Pill-Pusher for Drug Industry Thu, 14 Apr 2005 An investigative reporter has dug up the facts behind TeenScreen, the aggressive marketing scheme that targets America’s school children who are being “screened” for undetected mental problems – even though no accurate diagnostic screening tool for…

Comprehensive Children’s Mental Health Systems

KAREN VAN LANDEGHEM: E7 – Comprehensive Children’s Mental Health Systems (GEN) – March 1, 2004 http://128.248.232.90/archives/mchb/amchp2004/e7/transcripts/session19b.htm KAREN VAN LANDEGHEM: Good afternoon. I want to thank AMCHP for inviting Illinois to be here and I, I need to say that, actually Barbara Shaw who’s the chair of the Illinois Children’s Mental…

HIV Foster Babies, Children Used to test safety of Experimental Drugs – NY Post

HIV Foster Babies, Children Used to test safety of Experimental Drugs – NY Post Sun, 29 Feb 2004 As a society, we need to be concerned that too many within the medical research community seem to have abandoned the foremost principle of medical ethics: First, do no harm. The latest…

20% volunteers drop out after suicide in Eli Lilly’s duloxetine trial

20% volunteers drop out after suicide in Eli Lilly’s duloxetine trial Thu, 12 Feb 2004 The Associated Press reports that nearly a fifth of the volunteers testing Eli Lilly’s antidepressant drug, duloxetine, dropped out after Traci Johnson, a 19-year old student committed suicide at a company laboratory. “Three participants in…

Healthy 19 year old volunteer suicides at Eli Lilly laboratory

Healthy 19 year old volunteer suicides at Eli Lilly laboratory Tue, 10 Feb 2004 The Indianapolis Star reports (below) that Traci Johnson, a 19 year old healthy volunteer, one of 25 local paid volunteers committed suicide by hanging while testing Lilly’s drug, Duloxetine, at Lilly’s Laboratory for Clinical Research. Duloxetine…

Failed Paxil drug tests in children concealed – Guardian UK

Failed Paxil drug tests in children concealed – Guardian UK Thu, 5 Feb 2004 The Guardian (UK) reports (below) that BBC Panorama had obtained secret 1998 documents from SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline, GSK) showing that the company deliberately concealed the failure of Seroxat / Paxil to demonstrate a benefit for…