Once Misdiagnosed, Writer Teaches Psychiatrists About Treatment – Psychol Today Fri, 27 Jun 2003 An article in Psychology Today is about an incredible story of survival. A teenager misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, then wrongly incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. Mindy Lewis survived for three years of being “drugged and locked away…
Rate of Preschool Kids Prescribed Antidepressants Skyrockets – Cong Investigates FDA Fri, 2 Apr 2004 A new survey by Express Scripts found the rate at which American children are prescribed antidepressants almost doubled (49%) in 5 years. The steepest unfathomable, medically unsupportable, increase–64%–was among preschool children. This is evidence of…
ACNP – a pharmaceutical industry funded association of psychiatrists – claims SSRI Antidepressants don’t increase suicidal behavior Wed, 21 Jan 2004 related links: Reply to ACNP Report – Jonathan Leo, Ph.D. FDA Sham Conflicts of Interest Policy The American College of Neuropsychopharmacologists (ACNP), an organization of psychiatrists with significant financial…
June 18, 2003. GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of Paroxetine (Seroxat, Paxil) issued a letter addressed to British Healthcare Professionals, disclosing that the drug was found be linked to serious undesirable effects in depressed children and adolescents under age 18. Below is an excerpt followed by the original letters: UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS Adverse events…
Supreme Court Halts Forced Drugging – AAPS Press Release Mon, 16 Jun 2003 The Supreme Court rules against government efforts to force citizens to take mind-altering psychotropic drugs against their will. The 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision overturned lower district and appellate courts in the case of Dr. Charles…
Toxicologist Blames Prozac for Wife’s Suicide – UK Fri, 27 Jun 2003 News reports from the UK are awash with cases of drug-induced violent suicidal behavior by patients taking Prozac, Paxil and the other antidepressant drugs in their class–i.e., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. A coroner’s inquest of the suicide by…
New AJOB InFocus article Examines Children in Clinical Research For immediate release May 7, 2003 (Philadelphia, PA) — The comprehensive study by Vera Hassner Sharav, President, The Alliance for Human Research Protection, examines a wide range of clinical research trials conducted on children and the ethical conflicts that arise from…
Rehnquist Warns Drug Makers _Marketing Actimune for Unapproved Use_NYT Mon, 28 Apr 2003 1. The New York Times reports that Janet Rehnquist, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, has issued “a compliance guide for drug manufacturers” in which they are waned that many of their…
UCLA Researcher Violated Federal Rules_LAT Thu, 17 Apr 2003 The Los Angeles Times reports (below) that a UCLA research oversight board (a.k.a. IRB) found that a microbiology professor had violated federal regulations and UCLA policy for the protection of human subjects by evaluating data and biological samples brought to the…
Death & Other Problems at Fargo VA Research Detroit_BNA Mon, 21 Apr 2003 Medical research at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be in disarray–veterans’ lives are at serious risk in an environment that does not take seriously federal safety requirements. It is apparent that during its tenure as…
THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) April 10, 2003 Letter to the Editor The New England Journal of Medicine View letter as finally published in NEJ Sir: The April 3, 2003 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) issue contained an array of articles largely in support of a disputed…
The April 3, 2003 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) issue contained an array of articles largely in support of a disputed multi-site, clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), involving critically-ill, mentally incapacitated human beings with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) – who did not give their informed consent.
The accompanying editorial, "Controlling Research Trials," by Dr. J.M. Drazen, who serves on the NHLBI advisory committee that had approved the disputed trial, reveals much about the NIH attitude toward the rest of the world.
