Corrupt Practices
America’s health care expenditure is about to go through the roof–without improving anyone’s health!
Those who rail against government regulation in healthcare must consider the potential consequences.
Why the tragic case of Dna Markingson and the culpability of the University of Minnesota won’t go away…
“To ghostwrite an entire textbook is a new level of chutzpah,” said Dr. David A. Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, after reviewing the documents. “I’ve never heard of that before. It takes your breath away.”
"When you’re selling $1 billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to just ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.”
"What’s gone on with the pharmaceutical industry is a physician arms race to buy off doctors…"
The catalyst for Dr. Elliott’s article was the tragic case of Dan Markingson, a 26-year old who committed suicide in May 2004, while enrolled in the CAFE trial, prescribed Seroquel. This case encapsulates the tragic consequences of a broken system which is not designed to detect the hazards for human subjects posed by market-driven research.
AHRP PROPOSAL:
Any FDA-approved drug, whose manufacturer has been found by a court of law or the Department of Justice–to have illegally marketed the drug by concealing risks or incidence of adverse effects, or making unsupported claims of clinical benefit–should be denied coverage by taxpayer funded insurance programs–including Medicaid, Medicare, VeteranstAffairs.
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…
An educator with an insightful sense of humor calls psychiatry’s proclivity to designate all manner of human behavior as pathological–an affront.
Dr. Charles Schulz is scheduled to present "How to help parents of a first psychotic episode patient," at Annual APA Meeting –it is closed to public. What is it that psychiatrists and the APA do not want parents or the public to know?
Even worse, FDA officials, in collusion and collaboration with GSK, approved an unethical and exploitative clinical trial—TIDE, which is on-going.
