Posts Tagged ‘Homicide’
IOM Comparison Finds US Ranks Lowest in Health / Mortality
Institute of Medicine report called the pattern of higher rates of disease and shorter lives “the U.S. health disadvantage,” and said it was responsible for dragging the country to the bottom in terms of life expectancy over the past 30 years.
Read MoreAmerica’s Healthcare Crisis–Part I “The Whole System is Broken”
Part I. America’s commercially profitable healthcare system is wasteful, inefficient and exceedingly harmful. Medical interventions are the third Leading cause of death.
Read MoreUnexamined Drug Epidemic–the Elephant No One Wants to See
“Prescription drug therapy stands as one of the most significant perils to health resulting from human activity.” What’s the FDA doing to stem the tide of this preventable epidemic?
Read MoreThe Truth About Psychiatric Drugs
Three new studies–one,, a pharmaco-genetic study, is groundbreaking–confirm that widely prescribed psychotropic drugs that pose serious risks of harm, offer no therapeutic benefit.
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SSRI Antidepressants Linked to Breast Cancer
8 Professors demand independent investigation of death in clinical trial
Why the tragic case of Dna Markingson and the culpability of the University of Minnesota won’t go away…
Read More31 Prescription Drugs Linked to 387 Homicides
"Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others, " identifies 31 drugs linked to 1,527 acts of violence…
Making a Killing–Marketing Exercises by Dr. Carl Elliott
The catalyst for Dr. Elliott’s article was the tragic case of Dan Markingson, a 26-year old who committed suicide in May 2004, while enrolled in the CAFE trial, prescribed Seroquel. This case encapsulates the tragic consequences of a broken system which is not designed to detect the hazards for human subjects posed by market-driven research.
Read MoreAntidepressants shown worthless for most consumers
Alaska Supreme Court Grants Mental Patients Constitutional Rights
Two news reports: Alaska Supreme Court decision and a JAMA report confirms that risk of violence among schizophrenia patients "was mostly confined to patients with substance abuse comorbidity."
Read MoreHow Did the Vioxx Debacle Happen? USA Today / Lancet
How Did the Vioxx Debacle Happen? USA Today / Lancet Tue, 12 Oct 2004 Dr. Eric Topol of the Cleveland Clinic: “The senior executives at Merck and the leadership at the FDA share responsibility for not having taken appropriate action and not recognizing that they are accountable for the public health.” In fact, FDA’s record…
Read MoreAHRP 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 are the problem.” Feb 12,…
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