The Damaging Impact of PDUFA and Why It Should be Repealed
The re-prioritization of rapid approvals occurred at the expense of drug safety standards,
The Secret Eli Lilly Zyprexa Documents–A Case For CivilDisobedience
A First Amendment lawyer challenges the rationale given by Judge Jack Weinstein for sealing the Zyprexa documents in the first place.
Pharma Giants Under Investigation by UK Serious Fraud Office
The Guardian reports that the Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into allegations that a number of major UK-based firms paid bribes to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.
Daubert Explicated: Putting Science in the Dock_The Nation
"Daubert lets judges have much too much leeway to follow their personal inclinations," says Stanley Feldman, retired chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
U of Toronto Endowment: Alternative Care Research by Mental Patients
A new century has bred a group of young educated people openly supporting each other in a bid to consolidate their strengths:
FDA Set to Approve Antibiotic for Cattle That Poses Catastrophic Threat_WashPost
Overshadowing all other health related news, a front page report in The Washington Post and the just released Breckenridge report evaluating FDA's abysmal performance on drug safety, http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/latest-report-blasts-fda-bungling-drug.html require Congressional action.
Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Off-Label Marketing & Harm Caused by Zyprexa
The deceptive marketing of antipsychotic drugs has prompted new advocacy group to launch "The Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs Campaign." Its goal is to get one million people to stop and reevaluate the medications they are taking.
APC-Xigris Increasing Evidence of Bleeding
The shift from Hippocratic medicine grounded in the “do no harm” principle, to corporate medicine has severed the unique physician-patient relationship based on a tacit understanding that the physician’s reasoned therapeutic recommendations will be governed the patient’s best interest.
Real Men, Real Depression—-Marketing Masquerading as Medical News_Newsweek
The pharmaceutical industry’s latest antidepression drug marketing campaign is being launched with collaboration of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)—
Doctors & Drug Makers_World Health Organization & Drug Makers
No Free Lunch is an example of disingenuous focus on trivia while avoiding the real issues that are corrupting medicine.
Court Ruling: Injunction on Release of Zyprexa Documents
A federal Judge of the Eastern District (Brooklyn) issued a ruling upholding a seal on documents that contain evidence linking Zyprexa, Eli Lilly's antipsychotic drug to diabetes
Zyprexa Documents Court Ruling
Despite Lilly's efforts to suppress the documents, they are available on internet websites.
Judge Jack Weinstein rejected Lilly's effort to seek a court injunction against internet posting
of the documents.