Public Ranks Drug Industry at Bottom With Oil, HMOs, Tobacco – Harris Poll

Public Ranks Drug Industry at Bottom With Oil, HMOs, Tobacco – Harris Poll Thu, 8 Jul 2004 The New York Times reports: “No industry has fallen as far or as fast in public esteem in recent years as the pharmaceutical industry, according to the Harris Poll.” The American public is…

Antidepressants – USA Today Editorial / AHRP OpEd/ WSJ Editorial Bashes Spitzer

Antidepressants – USA Today Editorial / AHRP OpEd/ WSJ Editorial Bashes Spitzer Mon, 21 Jun 2004 The debate about antidepressants, concealment of clinical trial data, and failure to warn about a suicide risk, is reaching an ever broader public. An editorial in USA Today and an invited Op Ed by…

Tell the Truth About Antidepressants On Drug Labels & in Medical Journals

Tell the Truth About Antidepressants On Drug Labels & in Medical Journals Thu, 16 Sep 2004 An April, 2004 editorial in the New York Times noted: “What seems most astonishing is the skimpy evidence that these drugs work at all in most young patients.” What is astonishing is how the…

Rate of Preschool Kids Prescribed Antidepressants Skyrockets – Cong Investigates FDA

Rate of Preschool Kids Prescribed Antidepressants Skyrockets – Cong Investigates FDA Fri, 2 Apr 2004 A new survey by Express Scripts found the rate at which American children are prescribed antidepressants almost doubled (49%) in 5 years. The steepest unfathomable, medically unsupportable, increase–64%–was among preschool children. This is evidence of…

Former President of Amer Heart Assoc Caught in Fraud – BMJ

Former President of Amer Heart Assoc Caught in Fraud – BMJ December 14, 2002 The British Medical Journal reports about the FDA took action against American cardiologist Dr. David Faxon, immediate past president of the American Heart Association for medical ethics violations, such as: falsification of data, false claims about…

Documents Show Drug Company Promotion of Unproven Drug – NYT

Documents Show Drug Company Promotion of Unproven Drug_NYT Tue, 29 Oct 2002 Internal company documents unsealed in a federal lawsuit reveal how the unholy alliance between doctors and drug companies has corrupted medical practice and defrauded the US taxpayer. Although it is illegal for drug companies to promote a drug…

InfoMail for March 14, 2002

  AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav March 14, 2002 Whistle-Blower SaysMarketers Broke the Rules to Push a Drug (Neurontin) FYI The New York Times reports that court papers in a civillawsuit "may provide a…