U S Federal Court ordered an overhaul of mental health care for veterans, who are killing themselves by the thousands each year because of what the court called “unchecked incompetence” of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the increasingly dark side of conflicts of interest in academia.
Even worse, FDA officials, in collusion and collaboration with GSK, approved an unethical and exploitative clinical trial—TIDE, which is on-going.
Given multiple prior investigations of Dr. Wakefied’s 1998 paper, why did it take the Lancet editors 12 years to discover a lack of proper IRB approval?
"Does this appointment signify that Harvard Medical School intends to even further strengthen its research ties to the pharmaceutical industry?"
The comments below expand upon an Infomail about the recently published JAMA meta-analysis.
Sen. Grassley obtained documents confirming NAMI as a front group for pharma companies who underwrite ¾ of NAMI donations—in 2006 to 2008 that was a hefty $23 million.
This month PLoS editors called for a zero tolerance policy: calling upon journals to identify and retract ghostwritten articles and banish their authors from publishing in their journal.
Ghostwritten journal reports masquerading as scientifically validated reports are a menace to public health.
Until now, American medicine as a profession has turned a blind eye and deaf ear to ghostwritten journal articles that have corrupted the integrity of the medical literature, displacing science-based medicine with corporate propaganda masquerading as science.
“I was trained from day one to market the drug illegally…My job was to promote Neurontin and motivate doctors to experiment on patients. After being hired as a medical liaison, I was selling drugs. The uses promoted were from the “snake-oil list” of 13 medical conditions."
A U.S. federal judge has issued an order to unseal thousands of Wyeth Pharmaceutical documents that provide details about the company’s "mammoth" ghostwriting campaign.
