Supreme Court Halts Forced Drugging – AAPS Press Release Mon, 16 Jun 2003 The Supreme Court rules against government efforts to force citizens to take mind-altering psychotropic drugs against their will. The 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision overturned lower district and appellate courts in the case of Dr. Charles…
Toxicologist Blames Prozac for Wife’s Suicide – UK Fri, 27 Jun 2003 News reports from the UK are awash with cases of drug-induced violent suicidal behavior by patients taking Prozac, Paxil and the other antidepressant drugs in their class–i.e., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. A coroner’s inquest of the suicide by…
New AJOB InFocus article Examines Children in Clinical Research For immediate release May 7, 2003 (Philadelphia, PA) — The comprehensive study by Vera Hassner Sharav, President, The Alliance for Human Research Protection, examines a wide range of clinical research trials conducted on children and the ethical conflicts that arise from…
Rehnquist Warns Drug Makers _Marketing Actimune for Unapproved Use_NYT Mon, 28 Apr 2003 1. The New York Times reports that Janet Rehnquist, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, has issued “a compliance guide for drug manufacturers” in which they are waned that many of their…
UCLA Researcher Violated Federal Rules_LAT Thu, 17 Apr 2003 The Los Angeles Times reports (below) that a UCLA research oversight board (a.k.a. IRB) found that a microbiology professor had violated federal regulations and UCLA policy for the protection of human subjects by evaluating data and biological samples brought to the…
Death & Other Problems at Fargo VA Research Detroit_BNA Mon, 21 Apr 2003 Medical research at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be in disarray–veterans’ lives are at serious risk in an environment that does not take seriously federal safety requirements. It is apparent that during its tenure as…
THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) April 10, 2003 Letter to the Editor The New England Journal of Medicine View letter as finally published in NEJ Sir: The April 3, 2003 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) issue contained an array of articles largely in support of a disputed…
Smallpox Vaccine Testing on Kids Blocked_LAT Wed, 9 Apr 2003 The Los Angeles Times reports that the federal government turned down the proposed clinical trial to test the controversial smallpox vaccine on 40 small children, aged 2 to 5 years old. The Alliance for Human Research Protection is proud to…
THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 April 4, 2003 Tommy Thompson, Secretary Department of Health and Human Services Dockets Management Branch (HFA–305), Docket Number 02N–0475, Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 Rockville, MD 20852. Re: Docket…
FDA Warning Letter Re: Fatal Experiment: Hexamethonium Inhalation_Johns Hopkins Tue, 22 Apr 2003 An FDA Warning Letter was sent to Dr. Alkis Togias of the Johns Hopkins University Asthma & Allergy Center (March 31, 2003). The letter lists specific federal safety requirements and their violation in the hexamethonium inhalation experiment…
CNN: Drug Argument Embroils Psychiatrists, Pharma Companies Sun, 30 Mar 2003 The seeds of doubt have begun to taken root and the media is beginning to ask probing questions about the unholy alliance that created the big lie resulting in the indiscriminate diagnosing of mental disorders. Even perfectly normal children…
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Following Deaths at VA_Albany Thu, 20 Mar 2003 A class action lawsuit has been filed on March 18, 2003 in U.S. District Court(NY), by attorney Alan Milstein, on behalf of “all persons who participated in human subject experiments” conducted by defendants, oncologist Dr. James Holland and…
