FDA Chief Counsel, Daniel Troy, Resigned Wed, 17 Nov 2004 FDA’s chief counsel, Daniel Troy, has resigned! This is good news for consumers. Troy was the symbol of what is rotten at the FDA: the pharmaceutical industry’s influence has ensured that business interests take precedence over public safety. Industry-influenced advisory…
FDA Condones False Advertising about anthrax vaccine Thu, 9 Dec 2004 The FDA and the Pentagon are flagrantly violating the law and a U.S. Court ruling. On October 27, 2004, a US Court ordered the Pentagon to suspend its forced anthrax vaccination of military personnel, and the Court ordered the…
2/3 Institute of Medicine AIDS research panel have Conflicts of Interst – Assoc Press Thu, 17 Mar 2005 On Feb 25, the New York Times reported that 10 of 32 FDA panelists determining whether to recommend that COX 2 painkillers should allowed to be marketed despite the documented increased risk…
Law Suits and Court Decisions Sep 15 2005: FDA Amicus Curiae–Kallas–claims FDA infallibility pre-empts state safety laws (warning: 1.6 MB file) Aug 6 2004: Psychiatrist Scolds the APA After Winning Distinguished Fellow Award/ NYC Sues 44 Pharma Companies Aug 5: Pfizer issues prosecutors a manual to defend drug – Star…
Infomail Archive 2003 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav Dec 19, 2003: Eli Lilly Prozac UK Fact Sheet: “Not Recommended” for Children – PMDD Withdrawn in UK Dec 19, 2003: Not-So-Public-Relations: Drug Industry & Bioethics – is it casuistry or sophistry? Dec 18, 2003:…
Safety of Smallpox Vaccine among Military Recipients Questioned_JAMA Mon, 3 Nov 2003 The government’s hasty and ill-advised smallpox vaccination policy for US civilians was roundly rejected by scientists and the public alike. Scientists agreed that public concerns about the vaccine’s adverse effects were valid. Military personnel, however, were given no choice–500,000 were inoculated. Surely their reactions to…
Infomail Archive – Pre 2003 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav December 28, 2002: Will 2 to 5 year old Amer. kids be exposed to Smallpox Vaccine? Israeli Intelligence says “No immediate threat” December 24, 2002: Moral turpitude: Herpes experiment surpasses Tuskegee December 20,…
Public Comments Re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2 to 5 Year Old Children The following comments supported the smallpox vaccine trial: I believe this is a necessary and very much needed trial. What if tomorrow smallpox was to become a problem? Since children are more susecptible to it, I am…
GAO Report critical of anthrax vaccine. October 23, 2002 The 1998 Defense Department anthrax vaccine policy that required military personnel to be vaccinated against their will has had serious fall out. First, far greater health related problems resulted than had been acknowledged until now, and, we learn, that policy has…
October 9, 2002 Smallpox Vaccine plan: HHS Messengers Still Stumble_NYT_WP The Administration’s shift in its smallpox vaccination policy is meeting with criticism from medical experts who are unconvinced that it is wise or justified to put millions of people at serious risk in (what amounts to) a massive human experiment–without…
Dr. Meryl Nass, a member of the board of directors of The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), is an acknowledged expert on anthrax, biological terrorism, and is a US authority on adverse reactions due to the anthrax vaccine. Dr. Nass has been a leading opponent of U.S. military policies that continue to treat military servicemembers as a ready pool of experimental subjects, in the absence of meaningful informed consent.
Dr. Nass will be appeaing on several national and international TV and radio programs:
News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 13, 2002 Some key questions that the FBI may not have considered in their search for the anthrax letter sender FYI Today’s New York Times reports that a major break may have come in the hunt for…
