BBC Panorama: Unprecedented public response to evidence of SSRI drug harm Wed, 21 May 2003 In a stunning follow up to its investigative report, The Secret of Seroxat, aired October 13, 2002, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) featured the public responses to its earlier program as the focus of its…
Sen Schumer asks FDA to place hold on Paxil for kids Fri, 13 Jun 2003 Senator Charles Schumer held a press conference in New York to announce that he had written to Mark McClellan, FDA Commissioner to investigate the adverse effects of Paxil, the SSRI antidepressant on children and teens,…
Medical Confidentiality of Research Subject in Jeopardy–Lawyers Subpoena Anthropologist Sun, 9 Mar 2003 Dr. Sheldon Zink, an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics who was in the operating room when James Quinn had an artificial heart transplant, is fighting a legal battle to preserve a research subject’s…
<p> Chromium 6_Carcinogen tested in 5 humans in the US </p> <p> Sat, 8 Nov 2003 </p> <p> Chromium 6 is classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as an “inhalation carcinogen.” Chromium 6 is a by-product of industrial processes and is linked to severe health problems, including lung cancer. No…
National Assoc School Psychologists Communiqué Re: Paxil, SSRIs Thu, 18 Dec 2003 In a Communiqué to its membership about regulatory action to protect children from the hazards of Paxil and other antidepressants, The National Association of School Psychologists acknowledges the leading role played by The Alliance for Human Research Protection…
Parkinson’s fetal tissue transplant experiment fails – Nature Fri, 29 Aug 2003 The journal Nature reports about yet another Parkinson’s fetal tissue transplant experiment (at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NY) that has failed to show any benefit for the patients. Indeed, in the latest such experiment 50% of…
US Troops Were Subjected to Wider Toxic Testing_NYT Wed, 9 Oct 2002 “At a time when our nation may be called upon to fight a war to protect Americans from chemical and biological terrorism, it is tragic to learn that four decades earlier, some of America’s soldiers and sailors were…
July 26, 2002 2,610 Infants died of preventable hospital-acquired infections – Chicago Tribune FYI President Bush would limit health care liability http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/politics/26BUSH.html . Clearly neither he nor his advisers have considered The Chicago Tribune’s investigative series, Unhealthy Hospitals (excerpt below). This Tribune series should be required reading for members of the various research…
August 26, 2002 OHRP Retreats from Providing Public Info re: Compliance Activities FYI A newly posted announcement by the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP), dated July 15, rescinds the agency’s announced policy of making public the content of its letters of determination following the agency’s investigation of compliance /…
How Did the Vioxx Debacle Happen? USA Today / Lancet Tue, 12 Oct 2004 Dr. Eric Topol of the Cleveland Clinic: “The senior executives at Merck and the leadership at the FDA share responsibility for not having taken appropriate action and not recognizing that they are accountable for the public…
Warning-Caution – Antidepressant Dilemma – NYT Magazine Mon, 22 Nov 2004 Tolstoy wisely observed: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Suicide is the ultimate tragedy affecting a family; the circumstances surrounding one person’s suicide are not transferable. The cover of Sunday’s New…
FDA’s Double Standard Re: Advisory Committee Membership Mon, 15 Nov 2004 FDA’s inexplicable actions–the latest being the removal of Dr. Curt Furberg from an FDA advisory committee for alleged "intellectual conflict of interest" – demonstrate hypocracy and intellectual dishonesty. Dr. Furberg independently analyzed the scientific data, concluding: "The result is…
