Seroquel Victim Asked Judge to Unseal Documents
Why is FDA Silent? Seroquel Victim Asked Judge to Unseal Documents for FDA Advisory
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Obama picks Duo to Run FDA: Dr Hamburg, Commissioner; Dr. Sharfstein Deputy
Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, a former health commissioner in New York City, is the leading candidate to become FDA commissioner, the agency's top job, while Baltimore health chief Joshua Sharfstein is in line to become a deputy commissioner
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Is the FDA a Broken Agency?
“You’ve got an agency that quite frankly is either non-functional, or dysfunctional, or maybe all of the above. “Bet yourself a new hat or a fine dinner that you are going to have a scandal a month. They are running around like a lot of headless chickens.” said Rep. John Dingell.
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Psychiatrists On the Take: the Focus of Government Investigations
Two prominent academic-psychiatrists–Jeffrey Bostic MD, director of school psychiatry, Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital, and Charles Nemeroff MD, the former chairman of psychiatry at Emory–are featured in current government investigations.
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“Eli Lilly and the Case for the Corporate Death Penalty”
"The corporate death penalty may be appropriate in cases involving recidivist violators, corporations that are deemed to be incapable of reform (i.e. inherently criminogenic)…"
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Obama’s Health Plan Could be Hijacked by Industry Which Sees Good Business
The Washington Post suggests, the chance for success in overhauling US healthcare depends on President Obama's ability to keep the major–discordant–players on board.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Pharma Preemption
U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Wyeth (and by extension, the pharmaceutical industry) which claimed immunity from liability for its failure warn about adverse drug effects by invoking FDA preemption
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ADHD Drugs Induce Hallucinations in Kids–FDA safety Officers
Three years have elapsed since FDA medical officers reported the findings of their comprehensive review of clinical trial data at an FDA pediatric advisory committee hearing (March, 2006).
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AstraZeneca: “Smoke-and-Mirror Jobâ€
The unsealed documents reveal that AstraZeneca “buried” unfavorable studies that showed Seroquel posed a serious risk for diabetes.
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Excess Deaths in VA Tretinoin-Retin-A Trial_FDA Silent
Even a seemingly harmless topical ointment may pose unanticipated lethal risks which are undisclosed on the FDA-approved label.
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Seroquel Litigation Documents–Sexual Exploitation
A document filed in Federal District Court, Orlando Fla, by plaintiffs "in response to AstraZeneca’s motion to exclude evidence and argument about Dr. Macfadden’s personal relationships," sheds light on yet another facet of manipulation–sexual exploitation.
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Drug-induced Risk of Cardiac Death: NYS Advisory_APA Guidance
“Current users of typical and of atypical antipsychotic drugs had higher rates of sudden cardiac death than did nonusers of antipsychotic drugs.” NEJM 2009