OIG Report: FDA Fails to Monitor Adverse Safety Reports_BMJ–FDA Duplicity Exposed
Every federal oversight agency evaluating FDA’s safety performance has given the agency flunking grades. See:https://ahrp.stagenoises.ch/cms/content/view/148/55/
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A Cure for Public Distrust: Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeeper
The Times’ humorous profile of JAMA’s editor attempts to trivialize the threat to public health when journals fail to maintain the integrity of science-based medicine.
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Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeepers
The harm done by journals’ failure to protect the integrity of science can hardly be overstated.
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TGN1412 Deadly Drug Trial Victims Told To Expect Early Death
The full impact on six healthy volunteers who took part in a catastrophic experiment that nearly killed them is ever so slowly coming to light.
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Child Born with Severe Heart Birth Defects–Paxil Lawsuit Filed
The law firm of Baum Hedlund filed a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of the antidepressant, Paxil, for causing severe heart defects in the newborn son, of a woman prescribed Paxil during her pregnancy.
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3 Suicides:Antidepressants involved: Chess Prodigy,19; lawyer, 50; child, 11
Antidepressants involved in three suicides: 19-year old Chess Prodigy; 50-year old lawyer; 11-year old child
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NYT Editorial: Our Conflicted Medical Journals
Today’s New York Times editorial hits the mark–it’s right on target!
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Professor Roy Porter-Greatest Benefit to Mankind
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present , by Professor Roy Porter , Fontana, Press , 1997. Below are a few–still very relevant–quotes…
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Staff Survey Confirms FDA Officials Tamper with Science_ Grassley Seeks Investigation of FDA
Bloomberg News reports (below) that Senator Charles Grassley has asked the Inspector General to investigate collusion between FDA officials and Merck. Citing handwritten notes prepared by a Merck executive document a meeting with FDA division director, Brian Harvey, suggesting a joint effort "to get the message out" to discredit Dr. David Graham who blew the…
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A Matter of Disclosure: Shame on JAMA editor / Shame on Harvard Scientists / FDA Adds SSRIWarnings
The Associated Press reports (1, 2 below) that the FDA has just issued new warnings about two additional life-threatening risks induced by SSRI antidepressants: Serotonin Syndrome and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in newborn babies.
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Is this the perfect storm of corruption? ACNP journal
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News report about a case involving Neuropsychopharmacology, the official journal of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) that will likely go down in history as psychiatry’s Watergate.