State Licensing drug reps could regulate sales policies
A ray of hope that might help cleanse medicine of its corrupt interaction with drug company marketers.
FDA officials conspired with Merck to defame Truth Teller–NEJM credibility ?
Two documented news reports provide evidence validating our charge that FDA officials and drug manufacturers.
Industry’s Role–NYT_Just how much ‘new research’ can we trust? Sunday Times
“There is a crisis of credibility in medicine and science,” says Dr Joseph Sonnabend who, as a former virologist for the Medical Research Council and a retired Aids physician, has watched the basis for public confidence decline.
$29 Million Donations Tie Drug Firms and Nonprofits_Philadelphia Inquirer
An investigative report in The Philadelphia Inquirer examined pharmaceutical company ties to six, tax exempt organziations that identify themselves as “patient advocacy” groups, "Each a leading advocate for patients in a disease area.”
Cardiologists Revolut RE: Industtry’s Role in Expanding Definition of Hypertension_NYT
A front page article in The New York Times gives a ray of hope about reclaiming medicine from the clutches of industry and its single-minded profit-driven goals:
Bitter Pill: NEJM Waited 5 Years to Report Missing Data from published Vioxx Study_WSJ
A documented report by David Armstrong of The Wall Street Journal (below) shatters the last glimmer of illusion about The New England Journal of Medicine as a bastion of scientific and moral integrity.
Science’s Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap_Dr. Lawrence Altman,
"Virtually every major scientific and medical journal has been humbled recently by publishing findings that are later discredited." NYT
Ex-Head of F.D.A. Faces Criminal Inquiry
The New York Times reports that former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Lester Crawford "is under criminalo investigation by a federal grand jury over accusations of financial improprieties and false statements to Congress."
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]
NJ: Mandatory Mental Screening Women_Pill Pushers: NO Science, Salesmanship_FORBES
Three reports illustrate the wide and deepening disconnect between medicine under the influence of pharmaceutical industry marketing goals and scientific evidence that contradicts current practice and public health policies:
Poisoning Children_SF Chronicle
"Top Republicans — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill– recently sold the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop."
FDA Staff Travels on Drug Industry Dollars
The Center for Public Integrity reports that FDA officials circumvent the prohibition on accepting trips from drug and medical device manufacturers.