Pharma Giants Under Investigation by UK Serious Fraud Office
The Guardian reports that the Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into allegations that a number of major UK-based firms paid bribes to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.
Daubert Explicated: Putting Science in the Dock_The Nation
"Daubert lets judges have much too much leeway to follow their personal inclinations," says Stanley Feldman, retired chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
HPV Vaccine Researcher Blasts Mandatory Marketing
Dr. Diane M. Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the humanpapilloma virus vaccine, who says giving the drug to 11-year-old girls "is a great big public health experiment."
U of Toronto Endowment: Alternative Care Research by Mental Patients
A new century has bred a group of young educated people openly supporting each other in a bid to consolidate their strengths:
The Case Against Mandatory HPV Vaccinations
The fracas arising from Merck’s aggressive lobbying states to mandate its new HPV vaccine, Gardasil, for 11 year old girls has kicked up a dust storm and drawn a line in the sand.
Russian Prosecutors Probe GSK: Illegal Vaccine Experiments on Children
Experimental Vaccine tests on minors are illegal in Russia.
Minnesota Dean Medical School on Pepsi Board
"When an expert joins this kind of board, clearly it's going to compromise their ability to speak out"
FDA Abandons DrugWatch-Reduces Safety Info to * Asterisk
The FDA has just released its “Guidance on Drug Safety Information” abandoning its own proposed ‘DrugWatch Site Guideliens (2005), http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/6657dft.htm replacing it with an *asterisk and an impossible to find location on the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) web page. A mere * is supposed to convey what…
: Public Health Agency Tied to Chemical Industry_LAT
The LAT reports that the Center for Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction has been outsourcing the writing of its "scientific" reports to an industry consulting firm, Sciences International.
FDA Set to Approve Antibiotic for Cattle That Poses Catastrophic Threat_WashPost
Overshadowing all other health related news, a front page report in The Washington Post and the just released Breckenridge report evaluating FDA's abysmal performance on drug safety, http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/latest-report-blasts-fda-bungling-drug.html require Congressional action.
Latest Report Blasts FDA Bungling Drug Safety Tracking–Waste & 4-year Delay
FDA administrators "mishandled the initiative through bureaucratic infighting, flawed planning and duplicative work performed by outside contractors." The report estimates that agency administrators wasted $25 million on a computer system that won't be functional before 2009.
AACAP President Disingenuous RE: Psychiatric Drugs that Killed 4-year old
This young child represents millions of children in the United States who are falling prey to licensed, but irresponsible prescribers of toxic drugs.