Eli Lilly’s new Prozac Fact Sheet (image below) sent to UK physicians–but not to US physicians–states that Prozac is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN for any indication. For a larger view, please click on the image.
Senate to Repeal Law Shielding Drug Giants – NYT, WashPost Sat, 11 Jan 2003 An agreement was reached by three Senate Republicans and Majority Leader, Sen. Bill Frist to repeal the three controversial corporate giveaways that had been ‘mysteriously’ slipped into the Homeland Security law. Despite his strong support for…
Corruption in drug research – NYT Corruption in Medicine – BMJ Sat, 23 Nov 2002 Two powerful exposes focus on the corruption of academic medicine on both sides of the Atlantic. Melody Peterson’s front page investigative report in The New York Times (released simultaneously with PBS broadcast with Bill Moyers),…
Guidant Case May Involve Crime Inquiry Thu, 29 Sep 2005 The New York Times reports that “criminal investigators at the Food and Drug Administration have apparently become involved in the agency’s inquiry into how the Guidant Corporation handled problems with its heart devices, said two people contacted by the investigators."…
Investigative Press Reports Aug. 7, 2002: Los Angeles Times. UC Seeks to Ease Curbs on Patient Research, by Charles Ornstein and Rebecca Trounson http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-uc7aug07.story?coll=la%2Dhealth%2Dmedicine SPECIAL REPORT : Experiments on Humans, San Francisco Chronicle August 4, 2002: Business of clinical trials soars, but risks unknown Medical studies give new hope to…
"The story’s pretty clear, and pretty embarrassing for the profession of psychiatry, which has allowed itself to be led by marketing," says Dr. Robert Rosenheck, Yale.
Artificial Heart experiment without informed consent? Wed, 30 Apr 2003 The manufacturer of an artificial heart, Abiomed, are seeking to use incapacitated patients who suffered a massive heart attack as human subjects without their informed consent. Does anyone have the moral or legal right to subject a human being to…
