Corrupt Practices
"William Weeks, MD a professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine is facing federal conflict of interest charges" involving contract between the Veterans Affairs department and Dartmouth.
Sen. Charles Grassley’s focused investigation is clearly aimed at cleansing fraudulent, industry-crafted promotional pieces that have made a mockery of evidence-based clinical practice in psychiatry.
“Every failure-to-warn case against a drug company has been affected by Wyeth”
April 14: the FDA announced that Coast IRB "has agreed to voluntarily halt some aspects of its clinical trial oversight operations due to serious concerns about the company’s ability to protect human subjects participating in clinical trials."
"The strategy of big companies when they are dealing with smaller opponents is to stretch the process, to overwhelm us until we are ready to accept whatever they want to offer."
The New York Times reports that Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena seeking information and all documents including transcripts of their testimony produced in litigation relating to three prominent Harvard researchers…
Another research scam uncovered by the GAO sting involved a "bogus IRB with a pet dog as its CEO."
The most shocking disclosure: a Biederman study testing the use of powerful antipsychotics in PRESCHOOL CHILDREN "was beset by breaches of research protocol."
A series of slides, all prepared by Dr. Biederman–according to his sworn testimony–are revealing as they raise serious doubts about the scientific and ethical integrity of his oeuvre.
The disconnect provides further evidence of how the prescription drug industry can shape, revise or even conceal negative research findings that affect the way doctors prescribe.
Study 15 was pivotal to AstraZeneca gaining FDA approval to market Seroquel. The burial of negative data suggests that the approval process was tainted and the drug's license should be recalled.
Two major cases of medical fraud have undermined patient safety and the integrity of the medico-scientific literature: But how each specialty responded is a study in contrast.
