4-year old Rebecca Riley,a Casualty of Psychiatric “Treatment”_BostonGlobe_NYT
“To me one of the miracle of children’s brains is that we don’t see more harm from these treatments.”
“To me one of the miracle of children’s brains is that we don’t see more harm from these treatments.”
"The federal government's campaign could discourage potential quitters who don't want to spend money on quitting aids or don't like the idea of treating their nicotine addiction with more nicotine."
The lead story in The New York Times on Thanksgiving day (below) acknowledged several facts demonstrating that children are the victims of major medical malpractice:
"Why are scientists coy about publishing negative data?
Two surveys confirm medical researchers' resistance to complying with conflict of interest disclosure requirements.
VA Drug Study Deaths under Criminal Investigation in NY_BNA Thu, 6 Feb 2003 Alexander Otto of the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) has uncovered a criminal investigation at the VA Medical Center in Albany, NY following the deaths of 5 patients who were inappropriately enrolled in a cancer drug trial….
Antidepressants Pregnancy Risk: Babies Adversely Affected Sat, 5 Feb 2005 Thanks to the BBC 3-part Panorama series (beginning October 2002), it is no longer a secret that coming off SSRI antidepressants can cause serious symptoms of withdrawal in some users. Christopher Pittman is on trial for killing his grandparents while…
Dissenting Opinion: Against Waiving Parental Permission for Research July 25, 2001 To: Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D, Chairperson, National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee Department of Health and Human Services Re: Specific Comment on FDA’s Decision to Adopt HHS 45 CFR 46 Subpart D, EXCLUDING §46.408 (c) Dissenting opinion of Vera…
Foster children AIDS Drug-Vaccine Experiments-Editorial – OpEd Sun, 22 May 2005 An editorial in the Toledo Blade, “Pediatric Shame,” expresses the moral indignation of the community upon learning that prestigious medical research Institutions nationwide exploited the vulnerability of children in foster care to test experimental AIDS drugs and vaccines: “in…
Senate HELP Committee Votes to Send Children to Front Line of Drug Tests Sat, 22 Mar 2003 Washington Post columnist, Al Kamen, writes about the difficulty the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is having convincing its own staff members to be inoculated with the smallpox vaccine, despite (or perhaps because…
Hopkins Study: Medical Consent Forms Confusing Wed, 19 Feb 2003 A Johns Hopkins study reviewed the template of informed consent forms of 114 campuses– nearly all the country’s accredited medical schools. It applied two widely used readability tests and found the consent forms approved by local institutional review boards (IRB)…
DHHS Reverses its Legal Position Petitioning FOR Federal Whistleblower Protection for Dr. Fishbein Thu, 3 Feb 2005 The Washington Post reports: “Department of Health and Human Services filed a legal petition this week in support of an employee the department is trying to fire. HHS told the Merit Systems Protection…