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
U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Wyeth (and by extension, the pharmaceutical industry) which claimed immunity from liability for its failure warn about adverse drug effects by invoking FDA preemption
AHRP Quoted in Scientific American
Are you aware that if you are in an accident in the U.S. your organs may be surgically removed without your consent?
"Daubert lets judges have much too much leeway to follow their personal inclinations," says Stanley Feldman, retired chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
The FDA has just released its “Guidance on Drug Safety Information” abandoning its own proposed ‘DrugWatch Site Guideliens (2005), http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/6657dft.htm replacing it with an *asterisk and an impossible to find location on the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) web page. A mere * is supposed to convey what…
Direct to consumer drug advertisements are so successful, they can convince people they're sick and need the advertised drug–
A federal Judge of the Eastern District (Brooklyn) issued a ruling upholding a seal on documents that contain evidence linking Zyprexa, Eli Lilly's antipsychotic drug to diabetes
Depressed? NYC Screens for People at Risk – NY Times Wed, 13 Apr 2005 A front page article in The New York Times reports that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has instructed doctors at City hospitals – who care for one in four New Yorkers…
More CDC Dirty Work re: ANTHRAX Vaccine – Meryl Nass, MD Wed, 20 Nov 2002 More indications that non-medical considerations are influencing the government’s anti-bioterrorism vaccine policy. In her column on RedFlags Weekly, Dr. Meryl Nass, board member of The Alliance for Human Research Protection, challenges the ethics of the…
FDA's Dr. Steven Galson, like his predecessor who now occupies a position in the Commissioner's office, demonstrates disconnectedness from reality, much like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned…
Tomorrow Hearing FDA’s Emergency Research Rule–CNN News at 8:00 P.M will inform the public about how the FDA Rule impacts on American citizens who can be put at increased risk to test an experimental treatment without their knowledge or consent.
