Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage in Patients: A partial, Annotated Bibliography by Vera Hassner Sharav ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 e-mail: veracare@rcn.com For distribution: January, 2000 Although patients, families and the public were not informed…
June 12, 1999 The Washington Post N.Y. Research Centers Faulted in Child Study Patient Protection Is Found Lacking By Rick Weiss Saturday, June 12, 1999; Page A02 A yearlong federal investigation into alleged research abuses of children in New York City came to a close yesterday with the release of…
Public Comments Re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2 to 5 Year Old Children Please do not place young children in jeopardy by testing this vaccine on them. Children’s bodies and minds are still fragile and growing, and a vaccine that has so far caused many adverse reactions in adults can…
May 30, 1998. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Editorial. “Protect the mentally ill.” p. 38 What sort of physician would take schizophrenics off their medications and give them drugs known to cause paranoia just to see how the patients react? What sort of unscrupulous researchers would give psychotic patients amphetamines to worsen…
The New York Times May 19, 1998 Psychiatric Researchers Under Fire By PHILIP J. HILTS ANDREW BROWNSTEIN, a severe manic-depressive, was desperate. None of his medicines could keep the anxiety and depression of his illness at bay. So in the fall of 1994, he agreed to become a research subject…
April 26, 1998 The New York Post POLS TO SEEK TIGHTER KID DRUG-TEST REGS By DOUGLAS MONTERO Pg. 028 Two city congressmen are calling for tighter controls over controversial drug experiments on kids conducted at several New York institutions – and around the country. The Post has learned that Cornell…
April 22, 1998 The New York Post FDA BOSS TO ANSWER TO CONGRESS FOR DRUG TESTS ON KIDS BY DOUGLAS MONTERO Pg. 012 The head of the Food and Drug Administration will be grilled by congressional probers today on why his agency allowed a psychiatric institute to experiment on city…
The New York Times HEADLINE: Experiments On Children Are Reviewed By PHILIP J. HILTS Federal research-ethics officials are investigating several psychiatric experiments in which 100 New York City boys, many of them black or Hispanic, were given the now-banned diet drug fenfluramine. The three experiments took place at the New…
October 16, 1997 NATURE Mentally disabled research subjects ‘need protection’ by Meredith Wadman p. 652 [Washington] When the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) convenes again on Sunday (19 October), it will wrestle with a difficult matter on which it is due to report by January. The commission’s human subjects…
October 10, 1997. Chronicle of Higher Education. Panel wrestles with thorny issue of protecting human research by Paulette Walker Campbell. p. 36 Psychiatric patients testify to ethical violations and examples of abuse in experiments at academic health centers. For the second time in nearly 20 years, a federal commission is…
Research Victims Testify before the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Two American Academics Are Accused Of Endangering Patients And Stealing $10 Million
