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FDA Acknowledges Caving to Influence Peddling–ReGen / ECT
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, acknowledged: “The message here is that there were problems with the integrity of F.D.A.’s decision-making process that have solutions.”
Read MoreUK Girl Rejects Gardasil, Loses Path to US Citizenship
"How can they call this America, the land of the free?" she asked. "Where are my parental rights?"
Read MoreTop FDA Officials, Compromised by Conflicts of Interest
Two high ranking FDA officials’ conflicts of interest have led one to resign, the other is under investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services:
Read MoreBig Pharma Declares Victory in Deal With White House
Essentially PhRMA won the right to continue bilking the beleaguered American taxpayer–a concession won under the Bush Administration which prohibited Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.
Read MoreSwine Flu Vaccine Trials begin–160M Shots ordered
…an aggressive campaign to vaccinate against the swine flu–EVEN BEFORE THE VACCINE’S SAFETY HAS BEEN TESTED, or the safety of the vaccine adjuvants have been tested.
Read MoreHas the Obama administration already cowered to the demands of Big Pharma?
Forbes Magazine reports "How one company turned a rejection into a thumbs up, and what it could mean for the drug industry as a whole."
Read MoreDoes the FDA have the authority to trump the Declaration of Helsinki?
The FDA is sliding rapidly down the slippery slope, abandoning widely accepted, international ethical research standards articulated in the internationally accepted, Declaration of Helsinki–to facilitate commercial medical experiments.
Read MoreConflicts for FDA committee set to weigh risks of Seroquel_Philadelphia Inquirer
FDA officials who continue to run its powerful center for drug evaluation (CDER) have once again shown bad faith by appointing financially compromised doctors to the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) advisory panel.
Read MoreMedical Research Fraud and Corruption_Cong. Sting_Forged Consents
Another research scam uncovered by the GAO sting involved a "bogus IRB with a pet dog as its CEO."
Read MoreObama picks Duo to Run FDA: Dr Hamburg, Commissioner; Dr. Sharfstein Deputy
Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, a former health commissioner in New York City, is the leading candidate to become FDA commissioner, the agency's top job, while Baltimore health chief Joshua Sharfstein is in line to become a deputy commissioner
Read MoreObama’s Health Plan Could be Hijacked by Industry Which Sees Good Business
The Washington Post suggests, the chance for success in overhauling US healthcare depends on President Obama's ability to keep the major–discordant–players on board.
Read MoreLetter of Complaint Re: FDA Double Agent
A follow-up letter to FDA Commissioner, Andrew vonEschenbach RE: Thomas Laughren, FDA’s ‘s Director of Psychiatry Products who has been actively promoting psychotropic drugs–even penning his name to ghostwritten industry-sponsored articles and consensus panels.
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