10 of 32 FDA Vioxx Panelists Had Industry Ties_NYT / Cozy NIH Review “Clears” NIH Industry Ties_WashPost Fri, 25 Feb 2005 The latest example of the corrupting influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care policy is the composition of FDA’s advisory panel that last week endorsed the marketing of…
Anne, comments 1, 2, 3 are (more or less) short repeats… the others are more substantive so I separated them vera Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:07 AM Subject: RE: Docket No. 02N–0466 I DO NOT support the smallpox vaccine study, Docket No. 02N–0466. I oppose this study!!! Vaccines are…
University of Washington Violated Federal Protections for Human Research Subjects Thu, 21 Apr 2005 A major research scandal reveals that the University of Washington in Seattle is in gross systemic violations of federal research regulations. Experiments that were conducted on vulnerable populations – including, pregnant women, neonates, children, prisoners–should never…
Linguistic Tinkering with Regulatory Terminology Increases Risk of Harm for Children: "minimal risk" "minor increment of minimal risk" and "disorder or condition" January 28, 2001 A cornerstone of the Declaration of Helsinki (adopted by the World Medical Association in 1964, and reaffirmed on Oct. 2000) is the distinction between research…
EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People: Spoon- Feeding Poison_VillageVoice Sat, 19 Jul 2003 The Village Voice reports that the EPA has “quietly begun lifting a 1998 ban” on human pesticide experiments that expose human beings to poisons meant to kill. Republican legislators have been recipients of…
Universities Misappropriate Federal Grants – Cornell Doctor Blows Whistle Alleging Phantom Studies – WSJ Wed Aug 17, 2005 Scott Fitzgerald’s opener to The Great Gatsby, “the rich are different from you and me…” is most aptly applied today to an elite corps of rich academic scientists. Academia once symbolized a…
Simply put, I am opposed to the vaccine study. These children’s immune systems are not yet fully mature and I feel their systems are already overwhelmed by the numerous vaccines they are given. Why risk a live virus vaccine in our country where no cases exist? I feel the threat…
http://hedwig.mgh.harvard.edu/ardsnet/faq.html#3 The individuals participating in the ARDS Network are listed below: Steering Committee Chair: Gordon Bernard, M.D., Vanderbilt University Clinical Coordinating Center: Massachusetts General Hospital: David Schoenfeld, Ph.D. B. Taylor Thompson, M.D. Nancy Ringwood, R.N., CCRA Cathryn Oldmixon, R.N. NHLBI Project Office: Andrea Harabin, Ph.D. Myron…
The risks of the drugs far outweigh their benefits, said Vera Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, a New York-based consumer advocacy group.
"UK regulators did not receive findings that might have warned them of damage TGN1412 could do."
"The drugs most commonly used to soothe agitation and aggression in people with Alzheimer’s disease are no more effective than placebos for most patients, and put them at risk of serious side effects, including confusion, sleepiness and Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms, researchers are reporting
today."
Success in academic psychiatry is not measured in the improvement of patients' mental health, but rather in quantifiable commercial tender.How many grants one brings to the university, how many publications one churns out each year, and how many corporate and professional advisory boards one serves on–and how much money one…
