Comments submitted by The Alliance for Human Research Protection Re: Best Pharmaceuticals for Children’s Act of 2002 The National Academy of Sciences Committee of the Institute of Medicine on Clinical Research Involving Children August 18, 2003 Vera Hassner Sharav, President John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D, Treasurer David Cohen, Ph.D, Secretary…
AHRP has been closely monitoring pediatric research trends since passage of the FDA Modernization Act of 1997. We believe that medications used in children should be thoroughly tested for safety, effectiveness and appropriate dose. But unlike adults who can exercise their autonomous right to informed consent, children who are enrolled in clinical trials are non-consensual human subjects. They should not, therefore, be made to assume the burden of testing possibly toxic drugs whose safety is unknown.
Infomail Archive 2003 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav Dec 19, 2003: Eli Lilly Prozac UK Fact Sheet: “Not Recommended” for Children – PMDD Withdrawn in UK Dec 19, 2003: Not-So-Public-Relations: Drug Industry & Bioethics – is it casuistry or sophistry? Dec 18, 2003:…
Safety of Smallpox Vaccine among Military Recipients Questioned_JAMA Mon, 3 Nov 2003 The government’s hasty and ill-advised smallpox vaccination policy for US civilians was roundly rejected by scientists and the public alike. Scientists agreed that public concerns about the vaccine’s adverse effects were valid. Military personnel, however, were given no choice–500,000 were inoculated. Surely their reactions to…
Infomail Archive – Pre 2003 News Stories on Human Research Protection and Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav December 28, 2002: Will 2 to 5 year old Amer. kids be exposed to Smallpox Vaccine? Israeli Intelligence says “No immediate threat” December 24, 2002: Moral turpitude: Herpes experiment surpasses Tuskegee December 20,…
Text of AHRP Amicus Brief filed with the Maryland Court of Appeals in support of the Court’s ruling against Kennedy Krieger Institute for exposing children to lead poison in an experiment. The Court of Appeals Decision Validates AHRP’s Stand Against Using Children in Harmful Research Experiments.
OHRP suspends Johns Hopkins Research license for Fed funded research July 19, 2001 The death of Ellen Roche, a healthy young woman before she was killed in a fatal hexamethonium inhalation experiment at Johns Hopkins University, has opened Pandora’s box, demonstrating that the safety of human research subjects has had…
Washington Post_Harvesting China’s Blood_installment 4 December 20, 2000. Washington Post. In what is, so far, the most devastating installment in the Washington Post series about the unholly alliances that comprise the booming human research industry, America’s premier academic research center is shown–not only to have violated ethical research standards in…
For distribution: January, 2000
Although patients, families and the public were not informed – some would argue they were deceived – clinical psychiatrists and researchers have long known about severe adverse drug reactions (ADR) and disabling changes in the central nervous system in a high percentage of patients taking standard neuroleptic drugs.
Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage in Patients: A partial, Annotated Bibliography by Vera Hassner Sharav ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 e-mail: veracare@rcn.com For distribution: January, 2000 Although patients, families and the public were not informed…
