Glaxo to Polish Industry Image
AdAge reports:
How drug lobbyists influence doctors
"Lobbyists influence how the government spends your money, but financially conflicted physicians can threaten your well-being."
U.S. Subpoena Opens a New Front in Investigation ofGuidant Heart Devices
"The subpoena shows that the government is investigating Guidant for possible violations of health care statutes
FDA shielding Big Pharma
"Now they are terrified that their crimes of commission and omission could reap them the same whirlwind harvest of accountability."
Medtronic spent at least $50 million on payments to doctors
"The internal Medtronic documents filed as part of the suit offer an unusually detailed glimpse of the intense campaign that device makers wage to win doctors’ loyalty."
Top SFBC officials Quit Amid Senate Inquiry Clinical Trials_ Bloomberg News
In its continuing coverage of corrupt clinical drug trial practices, Bloomberg News reports that all three founders of SFBC International, one of the largest clinical trial business operations that had failed to even screen human subjects for turberculosis, and threatened others with deportation if they refused to become guinea pigs, quit after the Senate Finance committee began investigating drug trial safety issues:
Montreal Clinical Trial Subjects Expoxed to Tuberculosis
Bloomberg News published an update to its sensational special report: Big Pharma’s Shameful Secret
see: https://ahrp.org/infomail/05/11/03.php
Big Pharma’s Shameful Secret
"Every year, drug companies spend $14 billion to test experimental substances on humans. Across the U.S., the centers that do the testing–and the regulators who watch them–allow scores of human test subjects to be injured or killed."
Borison- Diamond: Systemic Failure, No Checks & Balances_WSJ/ CBS/ Psych Times
Two American Academics Are Accused Of Endangering Patients And Stealing $10 Million