More detailed comments Children should not be tested for the Dryvax vaccine for the following reasons: 1) The original trials for the Dryvax vaccine already show that children respond similarly to adults when administered this substance. Since the effective dosage for adults has already been tested, it would be…
Ethical Violations / Investigations Today Congressional Investigations Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) Letters of Determination: http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/detrm_letrs/lindex.htm Office of Protection from Research Risks* (OPRR) List of Compliance Oversight Investigations Resulting in Restrictions or Actions to federally licensed Institutions between 1990 – 2000. *Reorganized in 2000 as OHRP Mar 30: AHRP…
Below is an image of an Eli Lilly letter which informs doctors in the UK that Prozac is no longer authorized for use in (so-called) premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). For a larger view, please click on the image.
Instead of a War against Drugs, Children Riddled with Psych Drugs Tue, 14 Jan 2003 In his 1994 book, The War on Children, psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Breggin exposed the practice of prescribing psychiatric drugs as a method for controlling children’s behavior. Dr. Breggin was reviled by the psychiatric establishment, even…
September 28, 2002 Smallpox Vaccine to be tested in children – why hasn’t CDC released their vaccine data? FYI WHOSE CHILDREN ARE BEING USED TO TEST THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL,SMALLPOX VACCINE? According to Newsday (below), the tests will be conducted at Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, marking…
Drug Companies are Outsourcing Drug Trials – WP Wed, 4 May 2005 The Washington Post reports that a study by Tufts has found a drop in the number of pharmaceutical company sponsored drug trials. Fewer new drug applications are being submitted to the FDA, and there has been a drop…
Foster Care Study – Editorial NY Times Thu, 19 May 2005 A major study funded by 3 states and the William T. Grant Foundation, confirms that America’s foster care system is dismal and that children who “graduate” at 18, haven’t been properly schooled – most haven’t finished High School: “As…
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…
Will NIH Ban on Consulting Deals with Drug Firms Set an Ethical Example? LAT / NYT Wed, 2 Feb 2005 The Los Angeles Times, whose investigative reports about conflicts of interest at the National Institutes of Health, shook the foundations of NIH by prying open the vaults that contained secret…
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…
Scientific Fraud & Corruption on Both sides of Atlantic: Merck / Proctor & Gamble Sun, 11 Dec 2005 Two major cases of medical research fraud on each side of the Atlantic involve evidence of fraud and data tampering by pharmaceutical company giants. Both cases provide insight into the way in…
New Evidence Uncovered About AIDS Drug/Vaccine Experiments on Foster Care Infants & Children Thu, 1 Sep 2005 A moral controversy is spiraling as additional evidence is uncovered about the use of infants and children in foster care as experimental subjects of Phase I and II trials of AIDS drugs, vaccines,…
