Pharma Corrupt Influence
NBSB Roster + Ex Officio Members
National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) Voting and Ex Officio Member Roster Voting Members Chair, Patricia Quinlisk, M.D., M.P.H. State Epidemiologist and Medical Director Iowa Department of Public Health Des Moines, IA Georges C. Benjamin, M.D., FACP, FACEP(E), FNAPA, Hon FRSPH Executive Director American Public Health Association Washington, DC Ruth L. Berkelman, M.D. (on leave…
Read MoreWhere Can One Find an Honest, Forthright Psychiatrist?
Following our March 15 Infomail/ post, "Inside Psychiatry’s Battle to Define Mental Illness," we received an e-mail from Dr. Allen Frances, objecting–in essence retracting his statements in an article in WIRED magazine by Gary Greenverg. Our response to Dr. Frances follows his communication.
Read MoreCommercially-Driven Medicine: Implant Device Sales Tactics
Medicine has been derailed from its Hippocratic tradition, science has been utterly corrupted by commercial interests, and doctors are disregarding patients’ interests. Patients are losing ground, no longer do they have a choice about the medical treatments that they get, or finding an ethical doctor whose recommendations are not tainted by his /her competing financial…
Read MoreCNN: Are Americans Overmedicated?
Introducing John Abrams, MD, author of Overdosed America.
Read MorePOGO to NIH: Stop Academic Ghostwriting Pollution
Project on Government Oversight (POGO) asked NIH Director to take a firm stance against ghostwriting by academics who receive taxpayer funded grants.
Read MoreUS Inspector General Report: Antipsychotic Drug Hazards
An audit by Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of DHHS, confirms what has already been documented: that antipsychotics are widely misprescribed for unapproved uses and taxpayers are saddled with the high cost through Medicaid and Medicare.
Read MorePrivate Foundations’ Conflicts of Interest Revealed
The largest private global health foundations exert inordinate influence on public health policy–ensuring that those policies increase profits for their corporate and endowment portfolios.
Read MoreGovernment Sanctioned Elder Abuse
“The law says veterans have the right to due process.But when the fiduciary process is initiated, that all goes out the window.”
Read MoreEthics of Marketing Vaccines: Dr. Jacob Puliyal
"The world depends on 35% of those who are defiers–those who clearly see what is right and what is wrong. But they need to speak up, to protest, and to stand up for their ethical values. The future depends on you."
Read MoreHow FDA Facilitated the Cost of a Drug to Skyrocket
The FDA granted market exclusivity to KV for an old drug that had been available from special pharmacies that custom-compound treatments not approved by the FDA, for $20 a shot. By granting KV market exclusivity, women could no longer obtain the drug, Makena, at a reasonable price– KV set the price at $1,500 a shot.
Read MoreReport Faults Army in 2001 Anthrax Mailings
A month after a report by a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, at the request of the Justice Department, concluded that the scientific evidence implicating Bruce Ivins to the anthrax letter attacks was not definitive,The Los Angeles Times reports that a different report (also commissioned by the Justice Department) was filed with…
Read MoreMilitary Polypharmacy, PTSD: Deaths
"The problem of prescription overdose in the military has its parallel in civilian life. The tragic overdose victims in both spheres represent canaries in the coal mine–only the most obvious victims of what has become our national orgy of over using psychotropic drugs." Allen Frances MD
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