Dr. Sally M. Rogow Dr. Sally M. Rogow is Professor Emerita, Univeristy of British Columbia. In thirty-five years of experience working in the field of Special Education, Dr. Rogow has observed a wide variety of abusive situations in schools, treatment centers and care facilities – too often the abusers are the…
Jan 22, 1999 SCIENCE Volume 283, Number 5401, 22 Jan 1999, pp. 464 – 465 BIOETHICS NIMH to Screen Studies for Science and Human Risks Eliot Marshall For more than a year, patient activists and ethicists have been calling for a revolution in the way clinical studies in psychiatry are…
Highest Court in Maryland Validates AHRP’s Position in Decision to Affirm Federal Prohibition on Non-Therapeutic Experimentation on Children To read the full text (98 pages) of the Maryland Court of Appeals decision, go to the following URL for a pdf version: http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/law/StateMaterials/Marylandcases/grimesvkennedykreiger.pdf (Depending on the speed of your connection, it…
Public Comments Re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2 to 5 Year Old Children I find this study to be unnecessary and wasteful. If the desired outcome is to discover if we can stretch our supply of the vaccine, it seems wise to me to trade some of our $300 toilet…
Dr. Wolpe’s Accusations and Dr. Healy’s Response —–Original Message—– From: Paul Root Wolpe Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:30 PM To: VERACARE Subject: Re: Ethics of U Penn surgical “drug implant” experiment Vera, We will have to agree to disagree, so this will be my last email on this. A…
Psychiatry Research 117 (2003) 127Â135. Premature mortality in schizophrenia: a 7.5-year study. Maria G. Morgan , Paul J. Scully , Hanafy A. Youssef , a,b a,b a Anthony Kinsellac, John M. Owensa, John L. Waddingtona,b,* http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/NLPs/MM-PsychRes2003.pdf (100 KB pdf via psychrights.org) Abstract While premature death in schizophrenia is well recognised,…
Pesticide firms want to test chemical toxicity on humans instead of rats Sat, 4 Jan 2003 Count the reasons why not human pesticide experiments: 1) quantum increase in commodification of subjects, 2) presumptive utter absence of benefit to subjects, 3) end term purpose of inquiry is forensic (e.g. the San…
Concealed NIH Review Substantiates Fired Expert’s Concerns – AP Mon, 4 Jul 2005 The Associated Press reports that a 2004 internal report by the National Institutes of Health validates the allegations by Dr. Jonathan Fishbeing, the NIH ethics-safety expert who was fired for reporting unethical and scientifically flawed AIDS resesrch…
Latest Huckstersm: Surgical Implants for Depression – NYT Sat, 21 May 2005 The FDA was supposed to protect the public from snake oil hucksterism. It is appalling to note how far the FDA’s approval process for drugs and devices has veered away from it’s 1962 standards of evidence-based medicine. [1]…
Foster children AIDS Drug-Vaccine Experiments-Editorial – OpEd Sun, 22 May 2005 An editorial in the Toledo Blade, “Pediatric Shame,” expresses the moral indignation of the community upon learning that prestigious medical research Institutions nationwide exploited the vulnerability of children in foster care to test experimental AIDS drugs and vaccines: “in…
Follow the Money / Can the Institute of Medicine Review the FDA? Wed, 6 Apr 2005 A letter to the editor published in Nature Medicine by Dr. Bernard Carroll, a past chairman of the FDA Advisory Committee for Psychotropic Drugs, and past chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke…
Did Zoloft make him do it? FDA Zoloft data Tue, 8 Feb 2005 At issue beyond a Charlsteon, SC court, is whether Christopher Pittman – who was 12 years old and under the influence of Zoloft, a powerful psychotropic drug, when he killed his grandparents–should have been charged with murder…
