Chief NIH Geriatric Psychiatrist Takes the Fifth Refusing toTestify about Tissues Sent to Pfizer
Dr. Trey Sunderland III, chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, pled the Fifth amendment.
Some Doctors Object to PhRMA Snooping-NYT_Phil Maher: Pill Popping Nation-LAT
“The sale of the master file to drug companies hands the weapon to the drug company that the A.M.A. is saying is an illicit weapon."
GAO Report Gives FDA Flunking Grade in Detecting Drug Dangers
“More than a year after the Food and Drug Administration announced it had strengthened its drug safety system, the agency still lacks a reliable system for keeping track of emerging problems, congressional investigators concluded in a report to be released today.” [Los Angeles Times, below]
British Rethinking Rules After Ill-Fated Drug Trial_NYT
A front page report in The New York Times provides additonal information about the catastrophic TGN1412 medical experiment in which 6 previously healthy volunteers were intravenously injected with monoclonal antibody in a highly risky procedure.
FDA Approval process under fire–PML: Lethal side-effect–Tysabri: Multiple Sclerosis Drug
“When Anita Louise Smith enrolled in an experimental drug trial in 2002 in Colorado, she had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis but no symptoms and was looking to reduce the chances of being ravaged by the disease. Last year, she died at the age of 46 from an infection linked to the drug.”
Reporters Find Science Journals Harder to Trust, but Not Easy to Verify–NY Times
"My antennae are definitely up since the whole thing unfolded," acknowledged Rob Stein, science reporter of The Washington Post.
ADHD Drug Risks: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Problems
"This is out-of-control use of drugs that have profound cardiovascular consequences. We have got a potential public health crisis. I think patients and families need to be made aware of these concerns."
FDA Weakens Rules on Testing New Drugs_LA Times
FDA is speeding the testing of unknown, potentially toxic products in humans (Phase I trials) without adequate pre-human tests.
Unhealthy Medicine-Wash Post_Drug Profits Infect Medical Studies–LA Times
”SO WHY,” he asks, “DID American doctors prescribe $7 billion worth of Vioxx after Merck and the Food and Drug Administration knew all this?”
PhRMA-“The Karasik Conspiracy”–100 E-mails
The year 2005 will surely be the year in which the pharmaceutical industry’s
dirty tricks and underhanded tactics were revealed for what they are–a
menace to society.
Analysis of S. 1873 – The Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005
INTRODUCTION: This bill seriously endangers, if not completely undermines, the democratic process and the rule of law. It will absolutely destroy the unalienable rights of trial by jury and informed consent. It is a radical transfer of the US Treasury into the hands of unaccountable private companies whose record shows far more concern about profits than in protecting and improving the health of the American people. It also concentrates the power of life and death in the hands of one very fallible human being and creates an unaccountable federal bureaucracy not subject to disclosure, independent oversight or the safeguards of accountability necessary in a free republic.
Former FDA Commissioner or Wife Held Stock in FDA Regulated Area – NYT
Former FDA Commissioner or Wife Held Stock in FDA Regulated Area – NYT Thu, 27 Oct 2005 The mystery behind the resignation of Dr. Lester Crawford seems to be about failure to divest from financail holdings in companies regualted by the FDA. The New York Times cites Dr. Crawford’s statement…