AHRP Campaign to Protect Children from Harm
Oct 3: BBC PANORAMA TONIGHT – Taken on Trust – 13 years-Medical Deception
Sep 30: GSK Sales Reps told NOT to Divulge Paxill Data / Merck Withdraws Vioxx
Sep 22: Will Cong Oversight / Investigations Committee Ask FDA Tough Questions?
Sep 21: 18% decrease SSRI use in Youth – NYT / Suicide Risk Not New – Globe / Prozac no different
Sep 19: Govt Prozac study Recommends MANDATORY Screening & Drugs – “Overdosed America”_OpEd NYT
Sep 16: Black Box Warnings for Antidepressants – What’s Next?
Sep 16: Tell the Truth About Antidepressants On Drug Labels & in Medical Journals
Sep 14: AHRP Press Briefing Re: Antidepressant Drug Risks
Sep 8: FDA Forced Wyeth to REMOVE Suicide Warning from Effexor Label
Sep 2: Antipsychotic Drug Use Doubled since 1996 in Tennessee Children – Why?
Aug 10: Prozac in Drinking Water / Prozac in Streams Hurt Frogs fish / Newborns suffer Withdrawal
Aug 5: Spitzer Expands drug Probe: Johnson & Johnson / New FDA analysis Confirms SSRI Risks to Kids – WSJ
Aug 4: Sen. Grassley (Finance Committee) letter (416 K pdf) to 8 drug companies requests list of all antidepressant tests on children (1/1/1990–7/23/2004)
Aug 4: FDA Approves Lilly’s Cymbalta for Depression Despite Risk of Suicide
Aug 3: Drug safety Hearings-Sept-Congress/ FDA – Lilly Plans to Disclose Data
Jul 26: Mosholder Suppressed Report Posted/ Bush Moves to Block Medical Suits – NYT
Jul 24: Janssen Admits Hiding Risperdal Risks / TMAP & Illinois Mental Health Screening
Jul 23: Government sanctioned Assault on Children and Pregnant Women
Jul 22: Concealed Drug Trial Results Mislead Doctors & Put Children’s Lives at Risk – NYT
Jul 19: Clinical Trials Controversy Spotlights Flawed System – Psychiatric News
Jul 16: Congressional Hearing: What did drug companies & FDA hide?
Jul 9: Paxil for Children: Safety, Efficacy Aren’t Established – Letter WSJ
Jul 7: Cong Hearing Re: Disclosure Pediatric SSRI Trials
Jul 1, 2004: Harvard Study: Multivitamins Effective in Thwarting AIDS progress
Jun 30, 2004: NYS AG Expands Pharmaceutical probe – Forest Labs
Jun 29, 2004: FDA Alert: Effexor warnings added for neonatal adverse effects and suicidality risk
Jun 23: AHRP: Published NIMH Funded Prozac Trial Report Concealed Suicide Attempts by Teens
Jun 21: Antidepressants – USA Today Editorial / AHRP OpEd/ WSJ Editorial Bashes Spitzer
Jun 14: Guardian Reports: MHRA to Issue New SSRI Restrictions / Warnings for Adult Use
Jun 10: Antidepressant drug induced Suicides: Evidence of “Iceberg effect” Revealed
Jun 6, 2004: NY Times Editorial Gets it Right: When Drug Companies Hide Data
Jun 3: Spitzer’s Lawsuit Will Shake Up the Drug Industry – Full Disclosure is the Goal
Jun 2, 2004: NYS Attorney General files suit against GlaxoSmithKline
May 26: Australian Judge blames Paxil & Effexor: mom free of murder attempt
May 25: FDA role in suppressing damaging data – WSJ
May 21: No evidence that screening for suicide reduces suicide
May 10, 2004: “The scariest thing is that nobody knows” risks of depression drugs for children
May 8, 2004: Comprehensive scientific review concluded: All pesticides pose serious health risks to humans–especially children
Apr 22, 2004: What’s in a Warning? Antidepressants and Risk of Suicide – FindLaw
Apr 21, 2004: Data from Unpublished Trials Suggest that Most SSRIs Unsuitable for Children
Apr 19, 2004: NYU Students Drugged – NY Post
Apr 19, 2004: Antidepressant Use in Children Soars Despite Efficacy Doubts – Washington Post
Apr 10: Meta-Analysis: Efficacy & Safety of Antidepressants for Children – BMJ
Apr 2, 2004: Rate of Preschool Kids Prescribed Antidepressants Skyrockets – Cong Investigates FDA
Apr 1, 2004: Congress & the White House must remedy a prescription for danger
Feb 29, 2004: HIV Foster Babies, Children Used to test safety of Experimental Drugs – NY Post
Feb 11, 2004: Update: 19 year old volunteer suicided in Eili Lilly laboratory
Feb 10, 2004: Healthy 19 year old volunteer suicides at Eli Lilly laboratory
Feb 6, 2004: Prescription for Suicide? TIME MAGAZINE
Feb 4, 2004: Advisory Committee tells FDA: strengthen warnings on SSRI drug labels now
Jan 10, 2004: What Parents Aren’t Being told about their Kids Antidepressants – A Suicide Side-Effect? – SF Chronicle
Jan 9, 2004: Zolft pediatric study in JAMA challenged by peers – JAMA letters
Dec 19, 2003: UK doctors told: No Prozac for kids; No Prozac for PMDD
Dec 18, 2003: National Assoc School Psychologists Communiqué Re: Paxil, SSRIs
Dec 17, 2003: Medscape Cites AHRP Concerns Re: New Law Mandates More Testing of Drugs in Children
Dec 15, 2003: Antidepressant Ban for Kids Puts Pressure On U.S. / Canada
Dec 13, 2003: ABCNEWS.com: Worried About Antidepressants? E-Mail Us
Dec 4, 2003: Bush signed Pediatric Research Equity Act
Nov 1, 2003: TIME – Medicating Young Minds with Mood / Behavior Altering Drugs
Oct 29, 2003: FDA reviews depression drugs–Intense or Cautious? WashPost/ NYT/ Herald
Oct 14, 2003: Appeals Court reinstates Nigerian research case against Pfizer
Oct 14, 2003: WSJ: Court Revives Suit Against Pfizer On Nigeria Study
Oct 3, 2003: A growing Crisis: Aggressive Marketing of drugs for children – Lou Dobbs-CNN
Oct 1, 2003: Lead author of JAMA article rethinks positive Zoloft report – Guardian
Sept 24, 2003: Babies given mind altering drugs in Florida / 68 Paxil Withdrawal Victims File Lawsuit
Sept 21, 2003: UK issues ban on second SSRI antidepressant for children
Sept 2, 2003: Wyeth Pharma Warns Doctors Against Rx Effexor to Kids
Aug 26, 2003: Connecticut Dept of Children & Families Bans Paxil
Aug 25, 2003: Drugging Our Kids – New American
Aug 24, 2003: Brain Development &Teen Mood Swings – ABC
Aug 22, 2003: NIMH-Harvard study: 74% children prescribed SSRI suffer adverse effects
August 18, 2003: Comments submitted by The Alliance for Human Research Protection
Re: Best Pharmaceuticals for Children’s Act of 2002
July 29, 2003: Senate Passes Pediatric Research Equity Act
July 22, 2003: 2,000 children to get experimental malaria vaccine – Nature / BBC
June, 2003: What to do about the ADHD epidemic – William B. Carey, M.D.
June 19, 2003: GlascoSmithKline PAXIL Warning letter to Healthcare Professionals
June 19, 2003: FDA Statement Regarding Anti-Depressant Paxil for Children
June 18, 2003: GlaxoSmithKline issued letter to UK Healthcare Professionals – Paroxetine (Seroxat, Paxil) linked to serious undesirable effects in children.
May 29, 2003: Suffer the Little Children in the Research for Cures_USA Today
May 7, 2003: New AJOB InFocus article Examines Children in Clinical Research
May 5, 2003: FDA Warning Letter: child died from overdose during clinical trial
April 2003: American Journal of Bioethics. Children in Clinical Research: A Conflict of Moral Values. Vera Hassner Sharav
April 29, 2003: Cong. to act on GAO Finding: Families Give Up Kids to Get Treatment
April 15, 2003: Psychiatric Drugs Pushing Children to Crisis Units_Tampa Tribune
April 9, 2003: Smallpox Vaccine Testing on Kids Blocked_LAT
April 6, 2003: Failed Experiments: Child-Rearing Experts– Visions and Revisions
March 27, 2003: Children are Humans: Don’t Sacrifice their Rights, Dignity & Welfare
March 10, 2004: AHRP Calls for Federal Investigation of Drug Trials Using Children in Foster Care in Violation of Federal Regulations
February 16, 2003: Death of Baby Prompts Scrutiny of Research Risks_St. Louis Post Dispatch
January 14, 2003: Instead of a War against Drugs, Children Riddled with Psych Drugs
December 2, 2002: AHRP Comments on Smallpox Vaccine Testing on Children 2 to 5 Years of Age
November 2002: Public Comments Re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2 to 5 Year Old Children
November 27, 2002: US Gov Asks Court to Seal Vaccine Records
November 08, 2002: Investigative series finds kids drugged without cause – Journal News
October 21, 2002: AHRP Press Release Children Policy Recommendations
October 18, 2002: Court Strikes Down FDA Pediatric Rule
October 18, 2002: Pediatric Drug Tests – CNN / NYT Editorial
September 28, 2002: Smallpox Vaccine to be tested in children – why hasn’t CDC released their vaccine data?
August 21, 2002: AHRP Comments Re: DHHS Notice of Proposed Recommendation Regarding Support of Research Protocol: "Precursors to Diabetes in Japanese American Youth"
August 20, 2002: Medical Science Violating Children – 450 healthy children targeted – redflagsweekly
July 26, 2002: Cancer Trials: 60% to 70% of subjects are children
July 26, 2002: 2,610 Infants died of preventable hospital-acquired infections
July 25, 2002: US Drug Usage Explodes_327% increase in Children
July 12, 2002: Babies Exposed to Toxic Vaccines
July 9, 2002: Oregonian Editorial: Stop Drug Research on Oregon Kids
May 31, 2002: Children in "Hot Demand" for Clinical Trials
May 13, 2002: Experimentation on Newborns: Is it Ethical?
April 30, 2002: Dr. David Healy: Testing Psychotropic Drugs in Children
April 23, 2002: AHRP Congressional Testimony submitted by Dr. John H. Noble, Jr. and Vera Sharav to U. S. Senate re: Protecting Human Subjects in Research: Are Current Safeguards Adequate?
April 21, 2002: Hundreds of Viennese Child Victims of Nazi "Experiment" in WWII are Buried
March 26, 2002: Lab animals used in research are protected by laws; children are not.
January 28, 2002: Linguistic Tinkering with Regulatory Terminology Increases Risk of Harm for Children
October 10, 2001
Maryland Court of Appeals Denies Motion by Johns Hopkins, Kennedy Krieger, EPA, et al. to Reconsider Ruling on Using Children in Lead Paint Poisoning Experiment
October 1, 2001 AHRP Amicus Brief Supporting Maryland Court of Appeals Landmark Decision in Higgins v Kennedy Kriger Institute
September 21, 2001
Human values vs. $$$_ Children at Risk in Research
August 24, 2001
Federal Agency begins Investigating KKI / Hopkins Study of Lead paint Hazard
August 16, 2001
Maryland Court of Appeals’ Landmark Decision (Higgins v. Kennedy Krieger Institute) Prohibits Non-Therapeutic Experimentation on Children
FDA: regulatory protections for children. Comments submitted by Vera Hassner Sharav, John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D and Howard Fishman, MEd, MSW for AHRP
July 25, 2001
Dissenting Opinion: Against Waiving Parental Permission for Research
April, 2001
Comments Submitted to the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) by Vera Hassner Sharav and Marie M. Cassidy, Ph.D, D.Sc.
February – March 2001 Boston Globe series by Alice Dembner documents harm to children in clinical trials
February 27, 2001
Would you volunteer your child to be a "risk-bearing" subject in drug experiments?