America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part V–FDA Complicit in Crimes
FDA, a complicit partner in crimes and corrupt industry practices have resulted in an epidemic of preventable injuries and deaths.
FDA, a complicit partner in crimes and corrupt industry practices have resulted in an epidemic of preventable injuries and deaths.
Part III. The Untouchable Third Rail in Healthcare—The Vaccine Controversy: Core Issues
Part II. What Do We Get for All That Money? A preventable epidemic of injury and death from prescription drugs; FDA’s contribution to the epidemic; Big Pharma’s business model: manufactured myths, propaganda and a hidden agenda;
Part I. America’s commercially profitable healthcare system is wasteful, inefficient and exceedingly harmful. Medical interventions are the third Leading cause of death.
At a minimum, the practice of responsible medicine requires that physicians who prescribe drugs whose known severe adverse side effects are likely to cause their patients irreversible harm, requires that those physicians follow monitoring guidelines to ensure their patients’ safety.
Even if retracted, published clinical trial reports that misrepresent findings, withhold negative data, or make false, or unsubstantiated claims have done irreparable damage. AHRP calls upon all medical journals to adopt a publication policy requiring submission of the sponsor’s formal Clinical Study Report to accompany articles about clinical trial findings.
On Friday, April 6, the FDA approved another of Eli Lilly’s "breakthroughs" whose clinical value is questionable (at best).
“Overuse is one of the most serious crises in American medicine.” The crisis is not only of misspending of resources, overuse of medical treatments is causing treatment-produced harm, including preventable deaths.
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…
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.
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…
Introducing John Abrams, MD, author of Overdosed America.