Pharma Corrupt Practices_Glaxo / Bristol-Myers_Drug-induced Deaths / Homicides
Pharmaceutical industry corrupt practices are in evidence again, and again, and again.
Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law_PLoS
Evidence of an association between violence and widely prescribed antidepressant drugs is the focus of this Infomail.
Psychiatry’s Most Powerful Association Feeling the Heat_SCIENCE
Psychiatry’s most powerful and influential key opinion leaders who belong to the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) have been caught off guard. The ACNP leadership is scrambling to overcome the scorn it has received following public disclosure about multiple breaches of ethics and professional standards of conduct. The College and…
Schering-Plough Pleaded Guilty to Conspiracy Fined $435 Million for Promoting Off-Label Use
The pharmaceutical industry seems to be predisposed to corporate crime– much as the Mafia is–it’s their way of doing business.
ACNP Journal Editor Quits Amid Exposure of Conflicts of Interest
A notice from The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the inner sanctum of biological–predominantly drug-centered psychiatry–informs the
membership of the resignation of Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the Editor-in-Chief of its journal, Neuropsychopharmacology.
NYT Editorial: Safe Drug Testing in Prisons?
An editorial in today's New York Times is a follow-up to its riveting report by Ian Urbina on the recommendation by an Institute of Medicine panel to
lift 1978 federal restrictions on medical experiments on prisoners. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/us/13inmates.html?
Study: Antipsychotics Not Effective for Childhood Schizophrenia
Industry’s blockbuster sellers–the atypical antipsychotics performed WORSE than their cheaper, non-patented precursors.
Lift Veil on Research Funding
A Boston Globe report (below) focuses on three recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Harvard researchers who violated the journal’s disclosure policy by failing to disclose their financial ties to companies that had the most to gain from their purported findings.
OIG Report: FDA Fails to Monitor Adverse Safety Reports_BMJ–FDA Duplicity Exposed
Every federal oversight agency evaluating FDA’s safety performance has given the agency flunking grades. See:https://ahrp.org/cms/content/view/148/55/
Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeepers
The harm done by journals’ failure to protect the integrity of science can hardly be overstated.
Child Born with Severe Heart Birth Defects–Paxil Lawsuit Filed
The law firm of Baum Hedlund filed a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of the antidepressant, Paxil, for causing severe heart defects in the newborn son, of a woman prescribed Paxil during her pregnancy.
Three Essays: Ethics Medico-Industrial Complex
Three essays provide an overview of the bias that has debased the integrity of medical research literature while increasing the hazards of medical practice–for patients and doctors who are kept in the dark about prescribed treatment dangers.