Mass. Bans Pharma Gifts to Doctors
But, funding for research aimed at answering a scientific question will still not have to be disclosed…
Why big pharma mergers magnify failures_Haseltine_Atlantic
"Radical restructuring, not merger mania, is the need of our time." Dr. William Haseltine
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.
“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)…"
Sen. Grassley to Pfizer: Provide Details of $$ to Harvard MedicalFaculty
Sen. Charles Grassley sent a letter to Pfizer asking the company to provide details of its payments to at least 149 faculty members at Harvard Medical School.
Harvard Medical Students Rebel Against Pharma-Ties
200 Harvard Medical School STUDENTS are confronting the administration demanding an end to pharmaceutical industry influence in the classroom.
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.
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
Deaths, A Consequence of Forced Psychotropic Drugs
"Whatever powers the Constitution has granted our government, involuntary mind control is not one of them, absent extraordinary circumstances." 1979, Judge Joseph L. Tauro
Rolling Stone – Marketing a Phony “Miracle” Drug
“Bitter Pill” by Ben Wallace-Wells in the current issue of Rolling Stone is an excellent, informative, in-depth article providing an overview into the pharmaceutical industry’s immensely successful—albeit illegal—aggressive marketing tactics, for selling a particularly unsafe, dangerous class of drugs—the antipsychotics, Zyprexa in particular.
America’s Medicated Army + New Studies Linking SSRI to Suicide
Using drugs to cope with battlefield traumas is not discussed much outside the Army, but inside the service it has been the subject of debate for years.
Marcia Angell: Drug Co & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." Marcia Angell, MD