NHLBI director Dr. Lenfant is Retiring Thu, 3 Jul 2003 The retirement of Dr. Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) was announced today. Not mentioned in the press release is the heated controversy surrounding two clinical trials sponsored by the NHLBI, conducted by the…
Doctor Chides Medical Societies to Take Action – GSK Fined $150 Million in Medicare Fraud Wed, 21 Sep 2005 The latest in a series of fraud settlements, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $150 million to settle fraud allegations over inflating price of Zorfran and Kytril (nausea drugs) when billing Medicare…
For the Sake of Public Safety FDA & NIH Must Be Detatched from Drug Industry Tue, 21 Dec 2004 Daily front page reports about lethal drug effects leave no doubt that we are in the midst of a major health safety and credibility crisis, largely due to a drug development…
British Psychiatrists Debate: “Clinical trials of antidepressant medications are producing meaningless results” Wed, 27 Aug 2003 “The fact that most people support the psychopharmacological orthodoxy is, in itself, no argument and it is important to examine the evidence before drawing conclusions.” The psychiatric establishment is on trial–its foundation and claimed…
Practice Guidelines: Can We Trustthe Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine? Sun, 25 Sep 2005 “Research and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Can We Trust the Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine?” is an article by Dr. John Abramson* (Harvard) and Dr. Barbara Starfeld (Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins), published in the Journal of the American Board…
OHRP Investigation of experimental treatment for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. ARDSNet studies: ARMA, FACCT, and ALVEOLI Table of Contents to Fax from OHRP page 1 Oct. 7, 2002 OHRP letter to: Ronald S. Newvbower, Ph.D(Mass. General Hospital), Lee E. Limbird, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University), and Robert Kay, MD) (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)…
Lilly's aggressive marketing of Xigris does indeed epitomize the worst ofthis industry's mission.
No legitimate physician would use the physician’s professional license to help repressive government regimes intimidate dissidents.
Suicide rates fluctuate. Like the stock market their rise and fall is not due to a single decisive cause, but rather to a confluence of complex factors.
Agence France Presse reports that suicide rates in Russia have decreased. Not surprisingly the highest suicide rate in Russia is in Siberia.
Overreliance on toxic drugs is killing healthy people. And the FDA has done next to nothing to prevent drug-induced harm.
Dr. Trey Sunderland III, chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, pled the Fifth amendment.
