Medical Science Violating Children – 450 healthy children targeted – Redflagsweekly

Aug 20, 2002 Medical Science Violating Children – 450 healthy children targeted – Redflagsweekly FYI Redflagsweekly is the first online health news service to pick up on a news item provided in yesterday’s AHRP Infomail about a proposed experiment (whose researcher seeks government funding) to be conducted on 450 children…

Schizophrenia Drug Implants May Qualify as Medical Torture

Schizophrenia Drug Implants May Qualify as Medical Torture Sun, 17 Nov 2002 In some patients, antipsychotic drugs induce excruciating, intolerable side-effects. In some people these drugs’ toxic action has caused severe liver, heart, and kidney damage, as well as dangerously high blood pressure– some patients have died as a result…

Comments re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2-5 year old children

Comments re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2-5 year old children Mon, 2 Dec 2002 Recent public and professional debate about a smallpox vaccine trial and its risks provides the framework for evaluating the ethical justification for conducting clinical trials on children. The Alliance for Human Research Protection has submitted documented…

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Bad Medicine – Editorial – Guardian UK

Bad Medicine – Editorial – Guardian UK Sat, 12 Jun 2004 New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, is being recognized as a hero on both sides of the Atlantic. That’s because, unlike FDA officials, he knows how to use a “smoking gun” to affect change in corporate practices to…

A Frustrated Psychiatrist Abandons Her Practice to Get Out from under "Evaluating and Medicating"

A Frustrated Psychiatrist Abandons Her Practice to Get Out from under “Evaluating and Medicating" Mon, 20 Dec 2004 Dr. Karen Stevenson writes: “My job is to pronounce the name of the disorder and to write the prescription to fill it. I receive financial incentives to ‘evaluate and to medicate’ as…

Credibility Crisis: Survey FDA Scientists – Death in NIH-AIDS Trial – Tauzin Moves to PhRMA

Credibility Crisis:Survey FDA Scientists – Death in NIH-AIDS Trial – Tauzin Moves to PhRMA Thu, 16 Dec 2004 A credibility crisis in medical research is smoldering: like the Enron accounting scandal, the prescription-drug debacle is a matter of systemic corruption, including gross and widespread failure by the regulatory process. Unlike…

Nat’l Academy Sciences Supports human toxic pesticide experiments

Nat’l Academy Sciences Supports human toxic pesticide experiments Thu, 19 Feb 2004 The integrity of science and the preservation of civilized medicine are being systematically undermined. The New York Times reported that “more than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement asserting that the Bush administration had…

Doctors Without Borders: Why you can’t trust medical journals anymore

Doctors Without Borders: Why you can’t trust medical journals anymore Tue, 13 Apr 2004 Related link: Hear an interview with Shannon Brownlee on NPR at: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1874563 Doctors Without Borders in the Washington Monthly (excerpt below), looks at the intricate web of collaborating players in medicine who are financially tied one…

NIH Panel Recommendations Fail to Resolve Conflicts of Interest

NIH Panel Recommendations Fail to Resolve Conflicts of Interest Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 Following the disclosure by the Los Angeles Times (December 2003) that “NIH officials now allow more than 94% of the agency’s top-paid employees to keep their consulting income confidential,” Congress demanded full disclosure and an overhaul…