Carl Elliott, MD

America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part V–FDA Complicit in Crimes

October 7, 2012 |

FDA, a complicit partner in crimes and corrupt industry practices have resulted in an epidemic of preventable injuries and deaths. Continue reading →

America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part I “The Whole System is Broken”

September 21, 2012 |

Part I. America’s commercially profitable healthcare system is wasteful, inefficient and exceedingly harmful. Medical interventions are the third Leading cause of death.

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Deadly Medicine: Foreign Clinical Trials_Vanity Fair

December 17, 2010 |

In 2008, 6,485 trials were conducted off shore with almost no FDA oversight. Seventy-eight percent of all human test subjects were enrolled at foreign sites.

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Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Off-Label Marketing & Harm Caused by Zyprexa

February 25, 2007 |

The deceptive marketing of antipsychotic drugs has prompted new advocacy group to launch "The Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs Campaign." Its goal is to get one million people to stop and reevaluate the medications they are taking. Continue reading →

OIG Report: FDA Fails to Monitor Adverse Safety Reports_BMJ–FDA Duplicity Exposed

August 10, 2006 |

Every federal oversight agency evaluating FDA’s safety performance has given the agency flunking grades. See:https://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/148/55/
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Antibiotic Ketek Trial in Children

June 10, 2006 |

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.
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