Miscellaneous
Labeling Kids Mentally Ill for Profit – E. Pringle
Labeling Kids Mentally Ill for Profit – E. Pringle Mon, 14 Mar 2005 Independent, investigative reporters in Texas, Illinois, Ohio, FloridaŠare questioning the rationale for the recommendations of President Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health report calling for universal screening for mental illness. These investigative reporter have discovered that the NFC is a profit-enahancing…
Read MoreObesity Researcher AdmitsFabricating Data- $3 Mill Fraud in Gov Grants – Boston Globe
Obesity Researcher AdmitsFabricating Data- $3 Mill Fraud in Gov Grants – Boston Globe Fri, 18 Mar 2005 The Boston Globe reports about the worst case of scientific fraud to come to light. Dr. Eric Poehlman, a star among obesity researchers, faces jail time. He overstated the effects of menopause on women’s health and admitted fabricating…
Read MoreUse of combinations of antipsychotics–Harms Patients: McLean & Leipzig
Use of combinations of antipsychotics–Harms Patients: McLean & Leipzig Wed, 21 Sep 2005 Two additional studies provide additional evidence (coffin nails) demonstrating how psychiatry’s marriage of convenience gave birth to rotten fruit: specifically, under the influence of pharmaceutical companies, psychiatry plunged irresponsibly into practicing polypsychoparmacology. The evidence from these studies corroborates that such drug cocktails…
Read MoreBig Pharma’s Shameful Secret / Clinical Trials Stopped Early for perceived benefit later turned out false
<p> Big Pharma’s Shameful Secret – Bloomberg News <br> Most Clinical Trials Stopped Early for “perceived” benefit later turned out false – JAMA </p> <p> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 </p> <p> A six part Special Report by Bloomberg News reveals that “Every year, drug companies spend $14 billion to test experimental substances on humans. Across…
Read MoreDirector of NIH Agrees To Loosen Ethics Rules
Director of NIH Agrees To Loosen Ethics Rules Fri, 26 Aug 2005 “All animals are equal…but some animals are more equal than others….” The rules on conflict of interest for scientists at the National Institutes of Health have once again been changed to accommodate public servants with an overpowering sense of entitlement who were caught…
Read More10 of 32 FDA Vioxx Panelists Had Industry Ties / Cozy NIH Review "Clears" NIH Industry Ties
10 of 32 FDA Vioxx Panelists Had Industry Ties_NYT / Cozy NIH Review “Clears” NIH Industry Ties_WashPost Fri, 25 Feb 2005 The latest example of the corrupting influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care policy is the composition of FDA’s advisory panel that last week endorsed the marketing of lethal COX-2 pain killers. A…
Read MoreFDA Critics Slam Plan for Safety Reform – Nature
FDA Critics Slam Plan for Safety Reform – Nature Thu, 17 Feb 2005 This is smoke and mirrors and musical chairs. Vera Sharav Alliance for Human Research Protection, New York http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050214/full/050214-11.html Published online: 17 February 2005; | doi:10.1038/news050214-11 FDA critics slam plan for safety reform Emma Marris Calls grow for independent supervision of US drug…
Read MoreSupreme Court Decision On Right to Sue For Pesticide Harm
Supreme Court Decision On Right to Sue For Pesticide Harm Wed, 27 Apr 2005 Good news! The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that people who have been damaged by pesticides have the right to sue manufacturers of these poisons. Many of you will recall that the EPA wanted to conduct an infamous pesticide exposure experiment on…
Read MoreCounterpuch–The Pills Your Mother Gives You…Death, Depression and Prozac
Counterpuch–The Pills Your Mother Gives You…Death, Depression and Prozac Sat, 02 Apr 2005 Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of Counterpunch, the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter that prides itself: “We have all the right enemies” takes a swipe at Prozac, Eli Lilly and its battalion of heavy hitters who have successfully shielded Prozac from the impact of its severe…
Read MoreGuidant Didn’t Disclose a Flaw in Defibrillator for 3 Years – NYT / FDA Wrong on Crestor Safety
Guidant Didn’t Disclose a Flaw in Defibrillator for 3 Years_NYT / FDA Wrong on Crestor Safety Tue, 24 May 2005 The New York Times reports that the maker a a heart defirillator knew for 3 years about a malfunction and failed to inform physicians about It because the company “had not seen a compelling reason…
Read MoreDrug Companies Move Trials Outside the US
Drug Companies Move Trials Outside the US Tue, 17 May 2005 Unless the FDA cracks down by enforcing safety and scientific standards in clinical trials, the drug industry is moving its drug trials out of any regulatory oversight. USA Today reports that 50% of trials sponsored by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals were outside the USA – and…
Read MoreProtecting People w Mental Disabilities & Impairments against Biomedical Research Abuse
Protecting People with Mental Disabilities and Impairments against Biomedical Research Abuse[*] By John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA Vera Hassner Sharav, MLS, Alliance for Human Research Protection, New York, USA People with mental disabilities and impairments historically have been targeted by biomedical researchers and their governmental and industrial…
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