"Did you have permission to use Havasupai blood for your research?" At the heart of this case is a conflict of interests between scientists at powerful institutions that stand to profit from DNA research and powerless members of an underclass.
Dr. Charles Schulz is scheduled to present "How to help parents of a first psychotic episode patient," at Annual APA Meeting –it is closed to public. What is it that psychiatrists and the APA do not want parents or the public to know?
Who is accountable for the chemical torture of children who were subjected to medical maltreatment that borders on criminal negligence?
Twenty-two years after the US marketing of Prozac, JAMA meta-analysis shows antidepressants to be worthless for most of the people for whom they are prescribed.
The system has provided companies an opportunity to make spectacular profits from the widespread use of defective drugs and vaccines that have caused irreversible harm.
The case is so egregious that OHRP officials have taken the rare action of demanding that Columbia University track down the patients involved in the experiment and their families, and acknowledge that they never were informed about the “true nature” of the drug study, the risks they faced or the consequences of their participation.
Two important analyses in Open Medicine , a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, focus on methodological flaws in data analysis of randomized drug trials.
The FDA is sliding rapidly down the slippery slope, abandoning widely accepted, international ethical research standards articulated in the internationally accepted, Declaration of Helsinki–to facilitate commercial medical experiments.
The results suggest that the truth may have escaped the usual exclusion criteria. Underlying the commercial success of the new antipsychotics is evidence (usually suppressed) showing that these drugs are both harmful and ineffective even for their approved use.
"The strategy of big companies when they are dealing with smaller opponents is to stretch the process, to overwhelm us until we are ready to accept whatever they want to offer."
The New York Times reports that Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena seeking information and all documents including transcripts of their testimony produced in litigation relating to three prominent Harvard researchers…
The most shocking disclosure is that Dr. Biederman’s study testing powerful antipsychotics in PRESCHOOL CHILDREN "was beset by breaches of research protocol,"
