Freud Goes Up in Smoke – Toronto Star Sun, 16 Nov 2003 Neighbours: Freud And Hitler In Vienna, a just released film juxtaposes what Sophie Freud, granddaughter of the father of psychoanalysis calls two “false prophets of the 20th century.” Sigmund Freud, who was once regarded as a messiah and…
British Government Issues New Warnings Re: Use of antidepressant drugs for children Tue, 23 Sep 2003 related link: U.K. Government Document – New SSRI Warnings for Children In light of evidence from previously unexamined data from controlled clinical trials, the British Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM), an arm of…
ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Tel. 212-595-8974 Fax: 212-595-9086 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 Co-founders: Vera Hassner Sharav, President John H. Noble, Jr., PhD, Treasurer David Cohen, Ph.D., Secretary March 27, 2003 March 27, 2003 Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Dear…
GlascoSmithKline PAXIL Warning letter to Healthcare Professionals Thu, 19 Jun 2003 On June 10 the British government disapproved a license the widely popular, SSRI antidepressant, Seroxat (PAXIL), for use in children and adolescents after a committee examined the data from 9 clinical trials. The British Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory…
Unreported Paxil suicides: company abandons “No Addiction” claim Sat, 10 May 2003 GlaxoSmithKline, Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical company will change the label in the UK to reflect the severe withdrawal that its antidepressant drug, Seroxat (Paxil in US) generates in many patients. In Britain, the package label will no longer claim…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 19a, 2002 INSANE PSYCHIATRY: AProfession Run Amok FYI Nicholas Regush is an award winning reporter on medicaland scientific issues. For 6 years he was the medical…
Who is a Human Subject? Who has the Right to Informed Consent? March 11, 2002 "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential." [Nuremberg Code, 1947] "Human subject means a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains (1) data through intervention or…
AHRP InfoMail Declaration of Helsinki Nuremberg Code Hippocratic Oath Return to Home Page Prescribing Ritalin for Pre-Schoolers FYI A Feb. 4, 2002 press release by The National Institutes ofHealth (NIH) announces a new "finding" by researchers from theNational Institute of Environmental Health Resources (NIEHR). They claim that"more than 15 percent…
Randomized Controlled Trials: Evidence Biased Psychiatry By David Healy, MD MRCPsych Introduction A new drug gets introduced to the market. It has been approved after stringent scrutiny by the FDA, which requires ever more convincing evidence that it works and that its safe. The new treatment will always cost more…
ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH (AHRP) 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 Advance Directive Re: Research You Have a Right to Say "Yes" or "No" For your protection, AHRP recommends: Prepare an "Advance Directive" before you enter a hospital, in the event that you become incapacitated or mentally incapable of making informed, reasoned and…
Infomail 2005 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav Subscribe to the AHRP infomail list Dec 16: Drugs, Devices & Doctors – NYT Paul Krugman Dec 11: Scientific Fraud & Corruption on Both sides of Atlantic: Merck / Proctor & Gamble Dec 11: Gov Accountability…
September 9, 2002 Human Pesticide Experiment: The Slippery Slope – Sunday Herald Note: more info. available on AHRP’s human pesticide experiment page. FYI Pesticide experiments are unethical because human beings are exposed to poisonous substances. Because there is absolutely no potential therapeutic purpose, such experiments violate the Nuremberg Code. The…
