Infomail 2005 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav Subscribe to the AHRP infomail list Dec 16: Drugs, Devices & Doctors – NYT Paul Krugman Dec 11: Scientific Fraud & Corruption on Both sides of Atlantic: Merck / Proctor & Gamble Dec 11: Gov Accountability…
Infomail 2005 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav Subscribe to the AHRP infomail list Dec 16: Drugs, Devices & Doctors – NYT Paul Krugman Dec 11: Scientific Fraud & Corruption on Both sides of Atlantic: Merck / Proctor & Gamble Dec 11: Gov Accountability…
Pilots/ Children prescribed addictive stimulant drugs – “go pills” / “no go pills” – Christian Sci Monitor Fri, 20 Sep 2002 The Christian Science Monitor (below) reveals that performance-enhancing drug use by US military personnel is likely to escalate. To stay awake during long range bombing missions, U.S. pilots use…
FDA's Dr. Steven Galson, like his predecessor who now occupies a position in the Commissioner's office, demonstrates disconnectedness from reality, much like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned…
Tomorrow Hearing FDA’s Emergency Research Rule–CNN News at 8:00 P.M will inform the public about how the FDA Rule impacts on American citizens who can be put at increased risk to test an experimental treatment without their knowledge or consent.
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.
The harm done by journals’ failure to protect the integrity of science can hardly be overstated.
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.
The Associated Press reports (1, 2 below) that the FDA has just issued new warnings about two additional life-threatening risks induced by SSRI antidepressants: Serotonin Syndrome and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in newborn babies.
Two probing first rate investigative reports document how psychiatry’s treatments are shaped by "opinion leaders" whose professional recommendations are compromised by their substantial, largely undisclosed, financial ties to drug companies.
Once again, the New England Journal of Medicine (July 13, 2006) has had to eat crow after it published false and misleading clinical trial findings.
It is difficult to believe this latest announcement laying claim to a new "under treated" psychiatric disorder–Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is not a parody !!
