Can We Tame the Monster?
"Drug companies should not be allowed to evaluate their own products."
Chief NIH Geriatric Psychiatrist Takes the Fifth Refusing toTestify about Tissues Sent to Pfizer
Dr. Trey Sunderland III, chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, pled the Fifth amendment.
Industry’s Role–NYT_Just how much ‘new research’ can we trust? Sunday Times
“There is a crisis of credibility in medicine and science,” says Dr Joseph Sonnabend who, as a former virologist for the Medical Research Council and a retired Aids physician, has watched the basis for public confidence decline.
$29 Million Donations Tie Drug Firms and Nonprofits_Philadelphia Inquirer
An investigative report in The Philadelphia Inquirer examined pharmaceutical company ties to six, tax exempt organziations that identify themselves as “patient advocacy” groups, "Each a leading advocate for patients in a disease area.”
Cardiologists Revolut RE: Industtry’s Role in Expanding Definition of Hypertension_NYT
A front page article in The New York Times gives a ray of hope about reclaiming medicine from the clutches of industry and its single-minded profit-driven goals:
Bitter Pill: NEJM Waited 5 Years to Report Missing Data from published Vioxx Study_WSJ
A documented report by David Armstrong of The Wall Street Journal (below) shatters the last glimmer of illusion about The New England Journal of Medicine as a bastion of scientific and moral integrity.
Legislation Seeks Access to Tax-Funded Research_WashPost
Congress is finally addressing a rip-off by scientists who redeive taxpayer money and don’t show their findings to the public.
Ex-Head of F.D.A. Faces Criminal Inquiry
The New York Times reports that former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Lester Crawford "is under criminalo investigation by a federal grand jury over accusations of financial improprieties and false statements to Congress."
List: APA-DSM-IV_ DSM-IV- TR TASK FORCE
APA "Diagnostic Statistical Manual" Task Force has been shown to have financial relationships with drug manufacturers.
Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual Under Drug Industry Influence
The undisclosed financial relationships between drug manufacturers and psychiatry’s leading "authorities" who determine what constitutes a “mental disorder” have been exposed.
FDA Staff Travels on Drug Industry Dollars
The Center for Public Integrity reports that FDA officials circumvent the prohibition on accepting trips from drug and medical device manufacturers.
Bill Frist’s most Frequent Corporate Flight Hosts–Pharmaceutical companies
The nation’s most powerful legislators have grown accustomed to riding in plush private coporate jets. How does that affect public policy?