AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 27, 2002 EPA Halts Human Pesticide Tests FYI The Environmental Protection Agency has announced amoratorium on ethically repugnant human pesticide tests. EPA had conceded topharmaceutical /pesticide…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 26, 2002 FYI Severe Side Effects Reported forClozaril Drug induced inflammation of the heart (myocarditis) isone of several potentially fatal side effects of the so-called ‘atypical’antipsychotic…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 22, 2002 Alzheimer’s Drug Tests Halted When 12Volunteers Contract Encephalitis FYI The culture that led to the death of 19-year old, NicoleWan, a University of Rochester…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 21, 2002 Influencing Doctors: HowPharmaceutical Companies Use Enticement to "Educate" Doctors FYI Click on ABC TV’s web site below to see details of thisstory. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/2020/primetime_020221_detailmen_feature.html
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 20, 2002 FYI How the Mental Health System hasImpeded Road to Recovery by Stripping Patients of their Humanity For those interested in gaining insight into the…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 19, 2002 How a New FDA Policy Led toSeven Deadly Drugs FYI The Seattle Times reports, "Therelationship between the FDA and pharmaceutical industry changed fundamentallyunder former President…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 18, 2002 FYI The Fred Hutchison Center in Seattle WA has failedthree FDA inspections The Seattle Times reported on Sunday that aleukemia study at the Fred…
News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 13, 2002 Some key questions that the FBI may not have considered in their search for the anthrax letter sender FYI Today’s New York Times reports that a major break may have come in the hunt for…
"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential," reads the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which was drafted in direct response to the sheer barbarity of Nazi-era medical experiments on Jews and other captive groups.
2000 Study by Merck Showed Vioxx Risk: Results Not Given to FDA – Star Ledger Sun, 3 Jul 2005 News reports reveal that Merck failed to disclose Vioxx lethal effects to the FDA. Sheldon Krimsky, a science policy expert at Tufts University states: “if there was evidence the drug was…
January 7, 2002 FYI MAD IN AMERICA (Perseus Press), a new book by Robert Whitaker, a prize winning science journalist, is sure to cause a stir. Whitaker holds psychiatry’s feet to the fire by examining the evidence in the professional psychiatric literature, FDA documents, published treatment outcome studies–including the World…
Studies Link Zyprexa to Diabetes & Deaths_Balt Sun Thu, 20 Mar 2003 Eli Lilly’s best selling drug, olanzapine (Zyprexa), originally approved for schizophrenia, then for bi-polar disorder, is prescribed widely. But the drug has been shown to produce early onset diabetes, severe hyperglycemia–and deaths. Adolescents and young adults appear to…
