AHRP Initiatives Campaign for the Protection of Vulnerable Individuals September 13, 2002: National Disability Rights Activists Oppose Cal. AB2328 September 5, 2002: Do the Ends Justify the Means in Human Research? September 4, 2002: AHRP Replies to OHRP Response re Surrogate Consent (ARDS Study). August 28, 2002: OHRP Response…
Chemical giant paid students to drink pesticide – SundayTimes – Ethics of Human Pesticide Studies Questioned – Reuters Wed, 15 Jan 2003 Giant multi-national chemical companies are exerting pressure on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to accept data from human pesticide experiments. Such experiments are a radical departure from…
Subject: Students call for ouster of researcher_AAMC COI guidelines Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:03:54 -0400 Students of the University of Pennsylvania reacted to the NBC’s Dateline airing of Jesse Gelsinger’s tragic death–a casualty of a lethal culture. In an editorial in the Daily Pennsylvanian (an independent student newspaper), the…
Israeli State Comptroller Blasts Researchers for Experimenting on Patients without Consent Tue, 26 Jul 2005 Patients the world over need adeaquate protection from overreaching physicians who use patients to test experimental drugs and procedures without their informed consent. Jacques Michel, a retired director of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem who also…
Pharma Ethics: Merck CEO Resigns – Vioxx deceptive Marketing / AIDS drug experiments Foster Kids Fri, 06 May 2005 Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, resigned abruptly after he spent 11 years at the helm. The Washington Post reports the resignation “came on a day when Merck was sharply criticized in a…
Pfizer PainKiller Bextra withdrawn from market, New Boxed Warnings for Celebrex Thu, 07 Apr 2005 Pfizer’s withdrawal of the COX-2 pain reliever, Bextra, from the market because of potentially lethal side effects, including increased risk of cardiovascular malfunction and severe rash, validates Dr. David Graham’s analysis. This FDA medical expert…
University of Washington “Oversees” Research Safety at 100 Locations Sat, 23 Apr 2005 The third report in the News Tribune reveals that in 2004, the University of Washington – which for the seventh time in four years has been found in gross violation of federal research protection regulations–“oversaw about 6,500…
’91 Merck Memo Warned of Mercury in Baby Vaccines – LAT Tue, 8 Feb 2005 The Los Angeles Times reports that a 1991 internal Merck memo obtained from a whistleblower by James Moody, a Washington lawyer who works with parent groups on vaccine safety issues, provides the “first hard evidence…
Doctors On the Take-Engaging in Vairous Dubious Activities for Cash / Stock Options Tue, 16 Aug 2005 A series of current articles in The Wall Street Journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and the New York Times describe the many questionable non-medical income-producing activities that America¹s physicians…
War hero’s death in clinical trial follows years of FDA neglect – Bloomberg News Thu, 10 Nov 2005 Bloomberg News reports that a decorated veteran of the Vietnam war was killed in 2002, in a clinical drug trial at the FABRE Research Clinic in Houston, Texas. The FDA had found…
On Evidence, Medical and Legal Mon, 5 Sep 2005 An outstanding highly recommended article by a physician and an attorney, On Evidence, Medical and Legal by DonaldW. Miller, Jr., M.D. and Clifford G. Miller, Esq. clearly lays out the standards of evidence law in medicine. The authors critique the courts’…
212% Increase in Prescription Drug Abuse by US Teens – Australian critics challenge loose prescribers Tue, 27 Sep 2005 Psychiatric prescription drugs have “run amok”: two reports (July, August) by Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, or CASA, confirm an epidemic of prescription drug abuse among teenagers:…
