FDA-AstraZeneca Hearing
Glaxo chief: “Our drugs do not work on most patients” Mon, 8 Dec 2003 Dr. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Britain’s giant pharmaceutical company, acknowledged at a scientific meeting in London that fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually…
Prescription Drug Industfry: The Insiders – AARP Bulletin Wed, 10 Nov 2004 Three pharmaceutical industry insiders blow the whistle in one of the most important articles you’ll ever read about the unethical marketing of prescription drugs. Peter Rost, M.D, a top marketing executive at Pfizer, Arthur Kuebel, a salesman who…
Feb-March, 2001. Boston Globe series by Alice Dembner documents harm to children in clinical trials DANGEROUS DOSAGE Published on February 18, 2001. Author(s): Alice Dembner, Globe Staff TESTING CHILDREN’S DRUGS Published on March 18, 2001. TEDDY BEARS AND VEILED THREATS Published on March 20, 2001. Author(s): Alice Dembner, Globe Staff…
Despite the fact that children may be at highest risk of antidepressant-induced suicide, GlaxoSmithKline is testing Paxil on 7 to 18 year old Japanese children.
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:31:03 -0400 Subject: When Money Corrupts Medicine – Deaths Occur ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) www.researchprotection.org Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav FYI The Boston Globe reported that the family of Roger Darke who died in a gene therapy experiment conducted by the late Dr. Jeffrey…
What Ails the FDA? Payola – Marcia Angell Boston Globe Thu, 10 Mar 2005 The Boston Globe reports that the FDA is scrambling to put out one drug crisis after another, doing a poor job in both its areas of responsibility: medicine and food. FDA acting chief, Lester Crawford, cancelled…