A scientifically invalid study by financially compromised psychiatrists is but industy’s latest effort to rehabilitate SSRI antidepressants in the wake of public disclosure that these drugs DOUBLED the risk of suicidal acts.
The chemical abuse of U.S. children in foster care represent the collapse of civilized medicine.
These paid lobbying efforts on behalf of industry are carried out under the pretext of advocacy in the public interest.
The re-prioritization of rapid approvals occurred at the expense of drug safety standards,
A First Amendment lawyer challenges the rationale given by Judge Jack Weinstein for sealing the Zyprexa documents in the first place.
Dr. Diane M. Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the humanpapilloma virus vaccine, who says giving the drug to 11-year-old girls "is a great big public health experiment."
"Daubert lets judges have much too much leeway to follow their personal inclinations," says Stanley Feldman, retired chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
The fracas arising from Merck’s aggressive lobbying states to mandate its new HPV vaccine, Gardasil, for 11 year old girls has kicked up a dust storm and drawn a line in the sand.
"When an expert joins this kind of board, clearly it's going to compromise their ability to speak out"
The FDA has just released its “Guidance on Drug Safety Information” abandoning its own proposed ‘DrugWatch Site Guideliens (2005), http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/6657dft.htm replacing it with an *asterisk and an impossible to find location on the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) web page. A mere * is supposed to convey what…
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.
FDA administrators "mishandled the initiative through bureaucratic infighting, flawed planning and duplicative work performed by outside contractors." The report estimates that agency administrators wasted $25 million on a computer system that won't be functional before 2009.
