PhRMa R&D Costs Are Much Lower Than Claimed
The deeper problem is that current incentives reward drug companies to develop mainly new, but not better medicines at ever higher prices.
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Is it Ethical to Kill a Child to Save Other Children?
When is it moral for a government policy to compel parents to expose their child to risk of suffering serious, irreversible injury, or even death–so that other children would live? That overriding moral question is what public health officials and the stakeholders in the increasingly Big Business of vaccines have…
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Anthrax Report Cast Doubts on Scientific Evidence in FBI Case
"This report entirely undercuts the conclusion that RMR-1029 was the source and that Ivins was the perpetrator,” said Meryl Nass, MD, an anthrax expert.
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BMJ & the Lancet Wedded to Merck CME Partnership
Why did the BMJ fail to disclose its partnership agreement with Merck, major vaccine manufacturer–13 vaccines, including the controversial MMR vaccine ?
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VACCINE EPIDEMIC
Vaccines are legally classified as "unavoidably unsafe"–an indication that they pose an inherent risk. Vaccines have not been subjected to scientifically rigorous placebo controlled safety trials before they have been approved for use in children. The public debate over vaccine safety has intensified as a continuing stream of news reports…
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Charles Schulz under scrutiny for Seroquel study suicide
"This case goes beyond everything and anything, and this should have brought the house down on the university."
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NIMH Scientist Charged with Criminal Conflict of Interest
CORRECTION: An Associated Press article about a federal criminal case accusing Dr. P. Trey Sunderland III of improperly accepting consulting fees from a drug maker, misstated the level of the charge against him. Dr. Sunderland was charged with "non-willful" criminal violation, a misdemeanor which carries a maximum one year prison term and $100,000 fine. It is NOT a felony, which is punishable by more than one year prison term.
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CHANTIX Linked to Highest # Reports–Hostility-Aggression, Psychosis
Overall in the 2nd quarter of 2010, the FDA received 33,068 domestic reports of serious injury, disability or death associated with drug therapy–an increase of 12% from the same quarter one year ago.
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FDA Panel Recommends ECT Safety Testing
Panel Chairman Thomas G. Brott, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, said he was amazed that essentially no research had been done on ECT’s effects using functional MRI imaging, repeated brain wave (EEG) studies, or autopsy examinations of patients.
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FDA ECT Summary Report Blind Spots
At the end of today’s hearings, an FDA advisory panel will issue recommendations about whether manufacturers of electroconvulsive devices must put their devices to rigorous safety tests or whether they should be reclassified from Class III (high risk) to Class II (moderate risk)> Below are critical comments by Professor John…
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WSJ Sues to Gain Access to Medicare Database
The filing by Dow Jones & Co., in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, comes after a series of articles in the Journal about abuses of the Medicare system.
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Bayer Settles Multi-Million With Hemophiliacs Over HIV Tainted Blood
The Coalition Against Bayer pharmaceuticals (CBG) announces that Bayer and Baxter settled a mulit-million dollar compensation suit with hemophiliacs in 22 countries who were victims, infected with HIV or hepatitis C having been infused with tainted blood plasma products in the 1980s. In 2003, The New York Times reported that…