"He was one of the most prolific investigators in the area of postoperative pain management. His fraud sets back our knowledge in the field tremendously.” Dr. Steve Shafer, the editor in chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug, Chantix (varenicline), may be the most dangerous drug ever to carry the government seal of approval–it poses a danger, not just to those who ingest the drug, but to people in the community in which they live.
"The vote is an enormous blow to Avandia and GlaxoSmithKline. The vast majority of panel members voted either to withdraw the drug or to allow continued sales only if strict controls are added"
The dust-up involving Dr. Charles Nemeroff and Dr. Thomas Insell, director of NIMH shines a light on NIH leaders whose failure to enforce federal disclosure requirements is brushed off with excuses so untenable they have the ring of theater of the absurd.
"Dr. Nemeroff has become the poster child for what’s wrong with academic medicine in our country." Dr. Thomas Insell, Director of the NIMH, quietly helped him get a prized position at the University of Miami.
A stunning admission of failure by major drug manufacturers who market drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. "We really believe drugs are failing because we honestly don’t understand the disease."
"The resulting frenzy of psychiatric diagnoses has damaged the credibility of everyone in the field."
NAMI’s Pharma Funders – Serial Off-label Promoter Astrazeneca Tops the List
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) until recently was reluctant to reveal the source of its funding. But thanks to Sen. Grassley we now can learn NAMI’s sources for Major Foundation and Corporate Support.
The $$$ amounts–one might call them, "fees for services rendered"–reveal the truth about who wields the greatest influence on NAMI policies–and whose interests are being served by NAMI.
"Did you have permission to use Havasupai blood for your research?" At the heart of this case is a conflict of interests between scientists at powerful institutions that stand to profit from DNA research and powerless members of an underclass.
1 April 2010 The Peer Review “Fig Leaf”: Vera Hassner Sharav By SUZAN MAZUR While the chief of the US National Institute of Mental Health this week stopped short of saying scientists are corrupt because of their ties to industry, as AP reported — Vera Hassner Sharav does not…
Unlike patients in other fields of medicine, those who are designated mentally ill–or even declared to be "at risk" for mental illness in the future–are at once stigmatized and suffer losss of their autonomy.
