Doctors On the Take-Engaging in Vairous Dubious Activities for Cash / Stock Options

Doctors On the Take-Engaging in Vairous Dubious Activities for Cash / Stock Options Tue, 16 Aug 2005 A series of current articles in The Wall Street Journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and the New York Times describe the many questionable non-medical income-producing activities that America¹s physicians…

AHRP in the News

Alliance for Human Research Protection in the Press Feb 17, 2005: FDA Critics Slam Plan for Safety Reform – Nature “This is smoke and mirrors and musical chairs,” says Vera Sharav, president of the New York-based Alliance for Human Research Protection. “They will be using the very same officials that…

Harvard President Laments China Study – Globe

Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:57:32 -0400 Subject: Harvard President Laments China Study_Globe ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) A Human Rights Organization www.researchprotection.org Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav FYI Harvard’s genetic experiments in rural China have elicited much criticism. In December 2000, The Washington Post published a highly critical investigative…

Expert FDA Report: SSRI Suicide risk – SF Chronicle / NYT/ NJ Ledger/ AP

Expert FDA Report: SSRI Suicide risk_SF Chronicle / NYT/ NJ Ledger/ AP Fri, 16 Apr 2004 FDA officials have provoked congressional hearings at which they will have to explain, not only why they concealed data linking antidepressants to increased violent and suicidal behavior, and why they covered up a report…

Is there hope for Psychiatry to make it as a profession?

Is there hope for Psychiatry to make it as a profession? Tue, 14 Jun 2005 The New York Times reports: “Psychiatrists have been searching for more than a century for some biological marker for mental disease, to little avail.” Indeed, the latest embarassing controversy that perennially plagues the psychiatric establishment…

Evidence of Drug Harm that the FDA Sought to Suppress

Evidence of Antidepressant Harm that the FDA Sought to Suppress from FDA’s Public Advisory Committee Meeting on February 2 Evidence was presented on February 2 at AHRP’s press briefing by the following scientists: David Healy, MD, Director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine and Visiting Professor, University of…

Use of combinations of antipsychotics–Harms Patients: McLean & Leipzig

Use of combinations of antipsychotics–Harms Patients: McLean & Leipzig Wed, 21 Sep 2005 Two additional studies provide additional evidence (coffin nails) demonstrating how psychiatry’s marriage of convenience gave birth to rotten fruit: specifically, under the influence of pharmaceutical companies, psychiatry plunged irresponsibly into practicing polypsychoparmacology. The evidence from these studies…

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Individuals Participating in the ARDS Network

http://hedwig.mgh.harvard.edu/ardsnet/faq.html#3 The individuals participating in the ARDS Network are listed below: Steering Committee Chair:     Gordon Bernard, M.D., Vanderbilt University Clinical Coordinating Center:     Massachusetts General Hospital: David Schoenfeld, Ph.D. B. Taylor Thompson, M.D. Nancy Ringwood, R.N., CCRA Cathryn Oldmixon, R.N. NHLBI Project Office: Andrea Harabin, Ph.D. Myron…

Junk Science Hits Front Page Headlines: Most Americans Will Be Mentally Ill at Some Point – NIMH / Harvard Study Says

Junk Science Hits Front Page Headlines: Most Americans Will Be Mentally Ill at Some Point – NIMH / Harvard Study Says Tue, 7 Jun 2005 Americans may be astonished to learn that $20 million in taxpayers’ money was spent on a study whose unacknowledged purpose is to increase the use…

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AHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM

AHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM Fri, 11 Jul 2003 A truncated version of a Letter to the editor submitted by John H. Noble, Jr., PhD and Vera Sharav appears in the current July 10, 2003, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Note: On April 3,…