"Lobbyists influence how the government spends your money, but financially conflicted physicians can threaten your well-being."
The battle lines were drawn between those who recognize the corrosive effect that the pharmaceutical industry is having on the safety and integrity of medicine and medical research, and the powerful stakeholders–the pharmaceutical-academic industrial complex.
How to Quit the Cure–Antidepressant Withdrawal – NewsWeek Wed Aug 3, 2005 The current issue of NEWSWEEK lets readers in on the dirty little secret about the prescribed antidepressants of the SSRI variety. Although psychiatrists shudder at calling a spade a spade, these prescribed drugs are physically addictive–as is evident…
Topical tacrolimus and pimecrolimus: cancer, infections—"a clearly unfavorable benefit-risk ratio"— Prescrire International 2010 ; 19 (110) : 257 English edition.
More Spent on Psych Drugs for preschool kids than antibiotics or asthma – AP Mon, 17 May 2004 Data analysis by MEDCO, the nation’s largest prescription benefit manager found that between 2000–2003 there was a 49% increase in the use of psychotropic drugs for children and a 369% increase in…
Stakeholders in the Medical research enterprise, in the European Union and in the U.S., claim that clinical trials conducted on human subjects adhere to strict safety standards. “One of the things that sets clinical trials apart from other scientific experiments is the obligation for care. Investigators undertaking them have obligations…
