Americans Hostage to Profit-Driven Healthcare System
America’s profit-driven medical paradigm overdiagnoses illness and garners profits from unnecessary treatment.
Medical Journal Editors to Crackdown on Ghostwriting_NYT
This month PLoS editors called for a zero tolerance policy: calling upon journals to identify and retract ghostwritten articles and banish their authors from publishing in their journal.
Ghostwritten reports corrupt science, undermine public health
Ghostwritten journal reports masquerading as scientifically validated reports are a menace to public health.
Sen. Grassley Moves to Block Ghostwriting
Until now, American medicine as a profession has turned a blind eye and deaf ear to ghostwritten journal articles that have corrupted the integrity of the medical literature, displacing science-based medicine with corporate propaganda masquerading as science.
Ghosted Journal Articles Undermine Integrity of Medicine
Today’s New York Times reports (below) that "court documents provide a paper trail showing that Wyeth contracted with a medical communications company to outline articles, draft them and then solicit top physicians to sign their names, even though many of the doctors contributed little or no writing."
US Federal Judge Orders Wyeth Documents Unsealed
A U.S. federal judge has issued an order to unseal thousands of Wyeth Pharmaceutical documents that provide details about the company’s "mammoth" ghostwriting campaign.
Antidepressants-Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft Increase Risk of Breast Cancer
Inexplicably, the FDA has dragged its feet about adding a warning label to both tamoxefin and the antidepressants, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft–despitethe unanimous recommendation of its own advisory panel in 2006.
FDA-US Justice Dept. Withdraw Amicus Brief in Colacicco v. Apotex Inc,
“Every failure-to-warn case against a drug company has been affected by Wyeth”
RE: Stimulus Funding to Compare Treatments_Scientific American
AHRP Quoted in Scientific American
Non-profit Fronts for Drug Industry_Boston Globe
These paid lobbying efforts on behalf of industry are carried out under the pretext of advocacy in the public interest.
AACAP President Disingenuous RE: Psychiatric Drugs that Killed 4-year old
This young child represents millions of children in the United States who are falling prey to licensed, but irresponsible prescribers of toxic drugs.
More Re: Merck’s “Help Pay for Vioxx” Mandatory Vaccine Campaign
The WSJ confirms that Merck is "desperate" for funding streams and "vaccination across the U.S. would make Gardasil an automatic blockbuster."