FDA, a complicit partner in crimes and corrupt industry practices have resulted in an epidemic of preventable injuries and deaths. Continue reading →
America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part V–FDA Complicit in Crimes
Adverse Drug Reaction
America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part II–What Do We Get for $$$ ?
Part II. What Do We Get for All That Money? A preventable epidemic of injury and death from prescription drugs; FDA’s contribution to the epidemic; Big Pharma’s business model: manufactured myths, propaganda and a hidden agenda;
America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part I “The Whole System is Broken”
Part I. America’s commercially profitable healthcare system is wasteful, inefficient and exceedingly harmful. Medical interventions are the third Leading cause of death.
Medicine Hijacked: Books That Document the Real Health Care Crisis
America’s healthcare system is riddled with financial conflicts of interest. Business interests and commercial priorities undermine the precautionary principle of Medicine, the therapeutic mission of Medicine, the scientific integrity of Medicine. Government oversight agencies and Congress have subordinated the public interest for $$$. As a result, America’s healthcare delivery system is the third leading cause of death.
The Truth About Psychiatric Drugs
Three new studies–one,, a pharmaco-genetic study, is groundbreaking–confirm that widely prescribed psychotropic drugs that pose serious risks of harm, offer no therapeutic benefit.
Petition to FDA: Withdraw Aricept 23mg Immediately
Public Citzen petitioned FDA Commissioner to immediately removal from market Pfizer’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aricept 23 mg dose, because of serious safety hazards and failure to demonstrate efficacy. The petition also urges FDA to add a label warning on Aricept and generic donepezil (5 mg and 10 mg) stating: "Use of 20 mg per day is counter indicated."
Swedish Suicide Data 2007: Majority Treated With Psych Drugs
The majority of persons who committed suicide in Sweden in 2007 had received extensive treatment with psychiatric drugs within a year of committing suicide. Continue reading →
LIbby Zion Death: Medical Malpractice
After 25 years the preventable death of Libby Zion at the age of 18 at (then) New York Hospital (Cornell) continues to haunt the medical establishment. Continue reading →
ADHD Drugs Induce Hallucinations in Kids–FDA safety Officers
Three years have elapsed since FDA medical officers reported the findings of their comprehensive review of clinical trial data at an FDA pediatric advisory committee hearing (March, 2006). Continue reading →
Antipsychotic Use in Children: FDA Panel Rejects FDA Soft-Peddle Approach
"The committee’s concerns are part of a growing chorus of complaints about the increasing use of antipsychotic medicines in children and teenagers. Continue reading →
Public Testimonies at FDA-SSRI-Suicidality Hearings, Dec. 13, 2006
Only if one assumes that the FDA sees the drug industry as its client can some sense be made of December 13th meeting of the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Assaultive Prescribing of Psych Drugs for Children
Australian psychiatrist: "Does anyone else see tardive dysmentia after atypicalantipsychotics?"
U.S. Doctors are prescribing the antidepressant, Effexor (150mg) for infants under age one!