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
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.
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.
Complaint about a surge of FDA administrative approvals for expanded use of highly toxic antipsychotic drugs for children. Approvals were determined by Dr. Thomas Laughren after secret deliberations–without disclosure of scientific data, without an advisory panel or open public discussion.
Dr. Diane M. Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the humanpapilloma virus vaccine, who says giving the drug to 11-year-old girls "is a great big public health experiment."
"it's an arms race between insurers, who deploy software and manpower trying to find claims they can reject, and doctors and hospitals, who deploy their own forces in an effort to outsmart or challenge the insurers.
"The federal government's campaign could discourage potential quitters who don't want to spend money on quitting aids or don't like the idea of treating their nicotine addiction with more nicotine."
What, in addition to $6,000 does the governor of Texas have to gain by issuing an order REQUIRING all Texas 11 year old girls to be vaccinated?
Merck is lobbying states to MANDATE schoolgirls to be vaccinated with its new vaccine.
AHRP legal brief: "The Injunction is not in the public interest, as any injunction must be. The important data in the Lilly- Zyprexa Documents and the long history of cover-ups by “Big Pharma” make this clear."
An eye opening article by Jeanne Lenzer, “NIH Secrets,” in The New Republic (below), should make the new Congress sit up and take notice!
This is an addendum to yesterday's Infomail in which we disseminated disinformation issued by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC). www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/396/80
