Public Comments: Dr. William J. Bicknell, Professor of International Health, Boston University Dear Dr. Ball: I am submitting these comments in reference to the announcement published in the Federal Register, Vol. 67, No. 211, Thursday, October 31, 2002 regarding the Solicitation of Public Review and Comment on Research Protocol: A…
Wed, 04 May 2005 Researchers Tested AIDS Drugs on Children, Associated Press On March 10, 2004, The Alliance for Human Research Protection filed a complaint with the FDA and the federal Office of Human Research Protection about a series of AIDS drug experiments conducted on New York City children in…
Merck Baby Vaccines Not Pure – LAT/ FDA Advisory-Crestor / Zyprexa Lawsuit charges Lilly concealed Diabetes risk Fri, 11 Mar 2005 The FDA’s failure to carry out its watchdog responsibility to protect the public from unsafe drugs, has encouraged the pharmaceutical industry to conceal the risks and deceive the public….
2,000 children to get experimental malaria vaccine_Nature / BBC Tue, 22 Jul 2003 Malaria kills millions of African children yearly. For many decades malaria vaccines have been sought but have been dismal failures. NATURE and BBC report that a vaccine experiment will be conducted in 2,000 children in Mozambique–even though…
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.
Yesterday we forwarded an article about Tylenol-linked liver damage published by Associated Press. https://ahrp.org/cms/content/view/278/28/
Below two recent reports by Counterpunch.
One day following a rport in The New York Times, Sanifo-Aventis, manufacturer of Ketek, suspended the trial in children. The FDA has not announced any action.
This is an action alert to prevent the abuse of children who are sought as guinea pigs in HIV-AIDS vaccine trials!
