SSRI Antidepressants Linked to Breast Cancer
A meta- analysis of 61 studies in PLoS ONE found an increased risk of breast cancer for women taking an antidepressant.
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Ethics of Marketing Vaccines: Dr. Jacob Puliyal
"The world depends on 35% of those who are defiers–those who clearly see what is right and what is wrong. But they need to speak up, to protest, and to stand up for their ethical values. The future depends on you."
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Report on Research Compliance
News and Analysis for Colleges, Universities and Teaching Hospitals
Big Drop in OHRP Letters, Open Cases Raise Questions of Agency Commitment
In 2010, the Office for Human Research Protections issued and posted 16 determination letters, the lowest number in its 11-year history and less than half the number issued in each of the previous five years. Since 2007, the office has averaged 35 letters a year, down from a peak of 146 in 2002 and another high of 86 in 2006.
The number of determination letters is tied to the number of cases OHRP opens, and during the recent past, that number has also declined, RRC has learned, tumbling to an all-time low of six in 2009. Some tie the decline in activity to the arrival of Jerry Menikoff, whose tenure as OHRP director began in the late fall of 2008.
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Adult Stem Cells Repair Brain Damaged Cess Without Transplant
Before 2007,  the research community had dogmatically insisted that only embryonic stem cell research would be medically useful, and that adult stem cell research was a waste of resources and effort. The contentious debate was framed as between “enlightened” scientists and religious fundamentalists. Like many dogmatic theoretical constructs–this one proved…
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America’s Children Under Stress
America’s children are being victimized by public servants who abuse their authority: children’s physical and emotional health is under stress. The Rutherford Institute reports about a kindergartner who was suspended by Virginia school officials for crying in class. Yesterday, we reported that a Detroit mother was thrown in jail for…
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Detroit Mother Jailed for Weaning Daughter Off Risperdal
"Unless we put medical freedom into The Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship." Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.
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Cervical Cancer Prevention Vaccine Study
You can earn up to $5.00 for participating in a research survey. The research study is looking at the importance of information provided in the consent form for the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. The survey has about 30 questions and takes about 15 minutes to complete. The survey is geared…
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Jury Finds Johnson & Johnson Violated Consumer Protection Law
Johnson & Johnson officilas made a business decision to decieve doctors by lying about the diabetes risk: “how much commercial liability would we incur if we sent a similar letter about Risperdal”?
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Significance: Supreme Court Zicam Decsion
“I’m an investor in Matrixx; I worry whether my stock price is going to go down,” he said. “You can have some psychic come out and say Zicam is going to cause a disease, with no support whatsoever, but if it causes the stock to go down 20 percent, it seems to me that’s material.” Supreme Court Justice Roberts
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How FDA Facilitated the Cost of a Drug to Skyrocket
The FDA granted market exclusivity to KV for an old drug that had been available from special pharmacies that custom-compound treatments not approved by the FDA, for $20 a shot. By granting KV market exclusivity, women could no longer obtain the drug, Makena, at a reasonable price– KV set the price at $1,500 a shot.
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Report Faults Army in 2001 Anthrax Mailings
A month after a report by a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, at the request of the Justice Department, concluded that the scientific evidence implicating Bruce Ivins to the anthrax letter attacks was not definitive,The Los Angeles Times reports that a different report (also commissioned by the…
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Women’s Breasts Riddled With Metal by Mistake in a Study
About 30 women who participated in a clinical trial have been left hundreds of particles of potentially hazardous metal in their breast by a faulty disk made of tungsten and silicone that was used to shield against radiation exposure.