Law Suits and Court Decisions Sep 15 2005: FDA Amicus Curiae–Kallas–claims FDA infallibility pre-empts state safety laws (warning: 1.6 MB file) Aug 6 2004: Psychiatrist Scolds the APA After Winning Distinguished Fellow Award/ NYC Sues 44 Pharma Companies Aug 5: Pfizer issues prosecutors a manual to defend drug – Star…
FDA Failed to Enforce Law Requiring Drugmakers to Disclose Test Data – WashPost Tue, 6 Jul 2004 A front page article in The Washington Post reports that the FDA failed to enforce the law that requires drug companies to disclose ALL clinical drug trials and ALL trial findings-whether they’re good…
NYS AG Expands Pharmaceutical probe – Forest Labs Wed, 30 Jun 2004 The New York Times reports (below) that New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, is broadening his legal investigation. “Mr. Spitzer said in a speech on Monday to health care lawyers that he would continue to investigate how…
Scientists Decode Secret of Getting NIH Grants – WSJ Mon, 28 Jun 2004 The Secret of Getting Grants: Marketing Helps University Win $350 Million a Year, by Bernard Wysocki, a front page article in The Wall Street Journal, provides insight into an iron triangle that controls medical research. This triumvirate…
Forest Labs Admits Concealment of data – Congressional Probe Expands Sat, 26 Jun 2004 New York Times business reporter, Barry Meier, reports, “Forest officials had not told a medical journal about a failed unpublished study in 2002 of Celexa use in children and adolescents, before the journal published an article…
To: Thomas Insel MD; Tommy Thompson Re: Published NIMH Prozac Trial Report Concealed Suicide Attempts by Teens ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Tel. 212-595-8974 Fax: 212-595-9086 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 Related Link: NIMH Response to AHRP Letter Board of Directors: Vera Hassner Sharav,…
Antidepressants – USA Today Editorial / AHRP OpEd/ WSJ Editorial Bashes Spitzer Mon, 21 Jun 2004 The debate about antidepressants, concealment of clinical trial data, and failure to warn about a suicide risk, is reaching an ever broader public. An editorial in USA Today and an invited Op Ed by…
Ethics of Non-Consensual Human Experimentation – NPR Sat, 20 Mar 2004 Below is a transcript of an NPR discussion about the ethics of a non-consensual artificial blood experiment. The discussion was slanted toward proceeding with highest risk non-consensual experimentation on the basis of unproven claims. The position taken by the…
NYS Attorney General files suit against GlaxoSmithKline for Concealing Drug Information Wed, 2 Jun 2004 The most positive development in the antidepressant drug saga is the filing of a much needed lawsuit by Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General. The suit charges GlaxoSmithKline with having “engaged in repeated and…
Psychiatrist Scolds the APA After Winning Distinguished Fellow Award/ NYC Sues 44 Pharma Companies Fri, 6 Aug 2004 After receiving a 50-year “distinguished fellow award” from the American Psychiatric Association in May, 2004, Alex Braiman, M.D. a practicing psychiatrist, wrote a letter acknowledging that the APA’s “advocacy of unsupported “biologic”…
LA Times: NIH Dissident Scientists Hire Drug Industry Lawyers–Evidence of Journalistic Shilling Fri, 22 Apr 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner David Willman of the Los Angeles Times, whose investigative reporting first revealed the major covert conflicts of interest among top scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), reports…
Family Wonders if Prozac Prompted School Shootings Sat, 26 Mar 2005 The New York Times reports that family members of Jeffe Weise, the Mennesota student who went on a shooting rampage, believe that Prozac "could have been the final straw" that triggered Weise to kill. “They kept upping the dose…
