Chemical giant paid students to drink pesticide – SundayTimes – Ethics of Human Pesticide Studies Questioned – Reuters

Chemical giant paid students to drink pesticide – SundayTimes – Ethics of Human Pesticide Studies Questioned – Reuters Wed, 15 Jan 2003 Giant multi-national chemical companies are exerting pressure on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to accept data from human pesticide experiments. Such experiments are a radical departure from…

Human Pesticide Experiment: The Slippery Slope – Sunday Herald

September 9, 2002 Human Pesticide Experiment: The Slippery Slope – Sunday Herald Note: more info. available on AHRP’s human pesticide experiment page. FYI Pesticide experiments are unethical because human beings are exposed to poisonous substances. Because there is absolutely no potential therapeutic purpose, such experiments violate the Nuremberg Code. The…

Bayer Documents: AIDS Tainted Blood Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

Bayer Documents: AIDS Tainted Blood Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs Thu, 22 May 2003 An examination of internal Bayer company documents by The New York Times reveals that the company was engaged in unsavory, probably criminal marketing practices. The documents reveal that Bayer continued to sell contaminated blood plasma causing thousands…

Congress Bars EPA from accepting human pesticide data

Congress Bars EPA from accepting human pesticide data Thu, 28 Jul 2005 Thank you Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Hilda Solis for leading the charge to stop the Environmental Protection Agency in its tracks. The EPA was formulating rules that would have oveturened the Nuremberg Code prohibition against using poisonous…

Hemophiliacs File Suit Against Bayer for selling Tainted Blood product

Hemophiliacs File Suit Against Bayer for selling Tainted Blood product Tue, 3 Jun 2003 The Los Angeles Times reports that two weeks after The New York Times reported that Bayer documents reveal that the company sold tainted blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS to…

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UK: Drugs firms ‘creating ills for every pill / US ‘Bioshield’ Drug-Patent Plan Draws Fire

UK: Drugs firms ‘creating ills for every pill / US ‘Bioshield’ Drug-Patent Plan Draws Fire Mon, 04 Apr 2005 Following the public revelations about the concealed safety hazards of antidepressant drugs whose risks of violence, drug dependency, and suicide, were hidden from physicians and the public, a committee of Parliament…

Bayh-Dole Act: The Law of Unintended Consequences – Fortune

Bayh-Dole Act: The Law of Unintended Consequences – Fortune Sun, 25 Sep 2005 The author of this Infomail is Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D. Revisiting the Bayh-Dole Act (1980): Spawned Big Biotech, Now Has Opposite Debilitating Effects Today’s specter of harmful and inordinately priced drugs pressed on legislators and the…

Calls Mounting for FDA Revamp / Americans Are the most medicated population in the world – DHHS

Calls Mounting for FDA Revamp / Americans Are the most medicated population in the world – DHHS Sun, 26 Dec 2004 A government survey by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, confirms that Americans are the most medicated population in the world – 44 percent of Americans had…