FDA Hearing. What FDA Failed to Disclose: 1991, 2006.
AHRP Testimony presented by Vera Sharav, December 2006. PowerPoint slides (843 kb file).
AHRP Testimony presented by Vera Sharav, December 2006. PowerPoint slides (843 kb file).
AHRP Campaign to Protect Children from Harm Oct 15: FDA Orders Black Box Warnings on Antidepressants labels and Patient Information Guides to Warn about Suicide risk Oct 3: BBC PANORAMA TONIGHT – Taken on Trust – 13 years-Medical Deception Sep 30: GSK Sales Reps told NOT to Divulge Paxill Data…
Worldwide Drug Industry Ailing – PhaRMA Giants Reeling Blockbuster Drugs Found Hazardous Sat, 18 Dec 2004 Daily headlines provide confirmatory evidence supporting what critics of the drug industry have been say:ing for years. First, as The New York Times notes in one of its 4 articles about the latest “unexpected”…
Pharma Efforts to Bar Placebo Responders from Trials – WSJ Fri, 25 Jun 2004 A clinical trial report in The Lancet debunks the value of Aricept, a popular drug prescribed for Alzheimer’s patients. The findings of a three-year placebo controlled trial show that: “Although the patients taking the drug did…
Studies Link Zyprexa to Diabetes & Deaths_Balt Sun Thu, 20 Mar 2003 Eli Lilly’s best selling drug, olanzapine (Zyprexa), originally approved for schizophrenia, then for bi-polar disorder, is prescribed widely. But the drug has been shown to produce early onset diabetes, severe hyperglycemia–and deaths. Adolescents and young adults appear to…
Major Drug Effectiveness Review Found “Little Evidence” that ADHD drugs are safe or effective Tue, 13 Sep 2005 On paper, drug manufacturers MUST demonstrate with scientific evidence that a drug is safe and effective–if they want to gain to gain FDA approval. The burden of proof is on the manufacturer….
The year 2005 will surely be the year in which the pharmaceutical industry’s
dirty tricks and underhanded tactics were revealed for what they are–a
menace to society.