Research Uproar: Cancer Clinic Investigation Broad Implications
…instead of informed patient consent, doctors too often promoted trial treatments as superior to standard approaches, even when there was no supporting evidence.
10- Year University Cover-Up: Unethical BleedingExperiment_Huffington Post
The case is so egregious that OHRP officials have taken the rare action of demanding that Columbia University track down the patients involved in the experiment and their families, and acknowledge that they never were informed about the “true nature” of the drug study, the risks they faced or the consequences of their participation.
Americans Hostage to Profit-Driven Healthcare System
America’s profit-driven medical paradigm overdiagnoses illness and garners profits from unnecessary treatment.
FDA Acknowledges Caving to Influence Peddling–ReGen / ECT
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, acknowledged: “The message here is that there were problems with the integrity of F.D.A.’s decision-making process that have solutions.”
Medical Journal Editors to Crackdown on Ghostwriting_NYT
This month PLoS editors called for a zero tolerance policy: calling upon journals to identify and retract ghostwritten articles and banish their authors from publishing in their journal.
84% Americans Blame Big Pharma for Healthcare mess
Big Pharma’s defense for its inequitable U.S. pricing is grounded on a Big Lie
UK Girl Rejects Gardasil, Loses Path to US Citizenship
"How can they call this America, the land of the free?" she asked. "Where are my parental rights?"
Is the Pfizer settlement with the US DOJ Punishment or a Gift?
It is difficult to comprehend, why the Obama administration, which has made cost-cutting a legislative centerpiece of healthcare reform, would remove the most potent, financial penalty in its existing legal arsenal from its settlement with Pfizer.
Pfizer’s $2.3 Billion Settlement Leaves Victims in the lurch
Pfizer, the world’s largest drug manufacturer has the dubious distinction of being a corporate "repeat offender…"
Ghostwritten reports corrupt science, undermine public health
Ghostwritten journal reports masquerading as scientifically validated reports are a menace to public health.
Merck’s HPV Gardasil Vaccine: Risks, Benefits, Marketing_JAMA
What possible risk/ benefit standard can justify giving an inadequately studied vaccine whose risks include serious, permanent adverse effects–including death– to millions of girls and women–who will likely never get cervical cancer?
Sen. Grassley Moves to Block Ghostwriting
Until now, American medicine as a profession has turned a blind eye and deaf ear to ghostwritten journal articles that have corrupted the integrity of the medical literature, displacing science-based medicine with corporate propaganda masquerading as science.