FDA-AstraZeneca Hearing
A study published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that advanced chemotherapy put patients at far greater
risks of harm than adverse effect reports from clinical trial data reveal.
Vaccines against cervical cancer and shingles “don’t fit into the whole public health spirit of outbreak prevention.”
Pharmaceutical companies willingly settle court cases for hundreds of millions of dollars–even billions of dollars–to keep the truth about their drugs under seal.
Can a Popular Antidepressant Cause Teenage Suicide? Boston Globe Wed, 6 Aug 2003 For years, drug manufacturers and regulators (in the UK and US) have falsely maintained that antidepressants–such as Paxil (Seroxat), Prozac, and the other SSRIs–reduce the risk of suicide, and, they maintained, the drugs are not addictive. An…
"During a hastily called press conference yesterday,” the FDA announced that it is considering ADDITIONAL warnings on the labels of SSRI drugs—Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, et al.
A critical editorial by Dr. Robert M Kacmarek, Head of Respiratory Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard University—the coordinating center for the ARDS Network, calls into question the validity of the ARDS Network recommendation of treating all patients with ALI-ARDS with a fixed, low air ventilation setting (6 mL/ kg).