Potent Narcotic ‘Lollipop’ Becomes Best Seller_WSJ
Off-label prescribing of drugs for unapproved uses puts consumers at high risk of harm–but it is the single most lucrative marketing strategy.
Conflicts of Interest Hopkins Study: Researchers Don’t Want to Disclose $$
Two surveys confirm medical researchers' resistance to complying with conflict of interest disclosure requirements.
Medicine In Conflict:Financial Tentacles in Cardiology_Business Week
Business Week reports: "From 1986 to 2003 the number of nonsurgical cardiac procedures, such as propping open arteries with wire-mesh stents, rose twelve fold, according to the American Heart Association.
Recent developments in gene transfer research: risk and ethics
Recent developments in gene transfer research: risk and ethics Mon, 10 Jan 2005 An analysis by Dr. Jonathan Kimmelman, in the British Medical Journal provides an illuminating, clearly articulated discussion about the ethical dilemmas that challenge gene transfer experiments – essentially a kind of human genetic engineering involving somatic cells,…
NIMH to Screen Studies for Science and Human Risks – Science
Jan 22, 1999 SCIENCE Volume 283, Number 5401, 22 Jan 1999, pp. 464 – 465 BIOETHICS NIMH to Screen Studies for Science and Human Risks Eliot Marshall For more than a year, patient activists and ethicists have been calling for a revolution in the way clinical studies in psychiatry are…
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…
Dr. David Healy Addresses Credibility Crisis-at Columbia University Oct. 20
Additional information as of late Wed Oct 19: Although I was assured that attendance for a presentation by Dr. David Healy (at Columbia University School of Public Health on Oct. 20 at 12:30) would be open to the public, a problem seems to have emerged after an AHRP Infomail about…
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From: “VERACARE” To: “Dr. Bart Campbell” Subject: RE: AHRP Response to criticism re: fatal ARDS lung experiment Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) https://ahrp.org//testimonypresentations/ARDSNet0603/sharav.html
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AIDS Drug Trial report–Slipshod Journalism– NY Times Sat, 23 Jul 2005 Please join our effort to tweak the New York Times to practice what their banner states: “All the News that’s fit to print” That surely means fair and balanced reporting about contentious issues that pit the weak and vulnerable…
Psychiatry’s Claims Re: Brain Imaging Have Far Outpaced Science – NYT
Psychiatry’s Claims Re: Brain Imaging Have Far Outpaced Science – NYT Tue, 18 Oct 2005 A front page report in The New York Times Science section pulls the rug out from yet another of psychiatry’s myths. Benedict Carey reports: “Not long ago, scientists predicted that these images, produced by sophisticated…
AHRP Opposes Drug Implants for Psychiatric Patients
AHRP Opposes Drug Implants for Psychiatric Patients Those promoting the implants focus on its delivery of continuous sustained drug action to ensure that patients take the drugs they’re prescribed, presumably to prevent relapse. But critics who are familiar with widespread psychotropic drug prescribing abuses recognize the serious potential for harm…
Don’t Medicate Away Student Angst – Chronicle Higher Ed
Don’t Medicate Away Student Angst – Chronicle Higher Ed Sun, 15 Jun 2003 The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a superb essay by Joli Jensen, a professor of communications from the University of Tulsa. Jensen recognizes the harmful effects of medicating students to suppress their experience of normal, turbulent,…