Deadly Medicine: Foreign Clinical Trials_Vanity Fair
In 2008, 6,485 trials were conducted off shore with almost no FDA oversight. Seventy-eight percent of all human test subjects were enrolled at foreign sites.
31 Prescription Drugs Linked to 387 Homicides
"Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others, " identifies 31 drugs linked to 1,527 acts of violence…
Scientists Share Anthrax Info that FBI Left Out
Although the FBI closed the 2001 anthrax mailings investigation in Feb. 2010, experts disagree with FBI’s conclusion: new information about the anthrax, the investigation and the suspect still continue to emerge.
Why Psychoterapies Never Get Better
The latest psychotherapy fad is "cybertherapy embraces escapism and the mechanized techniques of "virtual reality." It has been given a veneer of legitimacy by a prominent article in the New York Times "Science" section.
Psychiatry Texbook Penned by Two Academic Leaders –GSK Ghosted
“To ghostwrite an entire textbook is a new level of chutzpah,” said Dr. David A. Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, after reviewing the documents. “I’ve never heard of that before. It takes your breath away.”
Under Fire, FDA’s Top Cop Steps Down
"The thought that someone at the GAO may have compromised the testing of a system unfortunately, brings the integrity of the entire report into question if it’s determined to be true." Sen. Charles Grassley.
Pres. Obama Orders Investigation of Guatamalan Syphilis Experiment
President Obama ordered a review by his bioethics commission following the revelations that yet another experiment sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, was even more odious than the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. In the recently uncovered experiment, unwitting Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis by the same doctor who…
Hospital Safety: NEJM Study Finds No Progress
Two major analyses of U.S. hospital safety found that: "harm to patients was common and the number of incidents did not decrease over time."
Medical Journals Complicit in Corruption of Medicine
We are no longer "blowin’ in the wind." A growing number of prominent physician-scientists, including several former journal editors, and New York Times columnists, have written sobering critiques about the corrupting impact pharmaceutical industry influence has had on medicine.
FDA: This Agency Can Be Dangerous_Marcia Angell
"… the basic missions of industry and regulators are different, and inherently somewhat adversarial, no matter how pleasant the relationship…"
Lawsuits, Just the Cost of Criminal Marketing of Antipsychotic Drugs
"When you’re selling $1 billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to just ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.”
“Much worse than Tuskegee…” More Revelations Re: U.S. Guatemala Experiment
"… it’s appalling — that, at the same time as the United States was prosecuting Nazi doctors for crimes against humanity, the U.S. government was supporting research that placed human subjects at enormous risk.”