October 7, 2012

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

VIII. FDA is the pivotal regulatory gatekeeper entrusted with: “protecting the public health by assuring the safety

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

September 21, 2012

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

The headline in The New York Times (Friday, Sept 21) “Reversing Trend, Life Span Shrinks for Some

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

April 28, 2012

Fraudulent Science: What’s Retracted, What’s Not

  Critics who deplore the commercialization of medical research have raised concerns about scientific fraud and misconduct

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Fraudulent Science: What’s Retracted, What’s Not

April 28, 2012

Fraudulent Science: What’s Retracted, What Is Not

 Even as the corruption of science is no longer a dirty little secret, but is in plain

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Fraudulent Science: What’s Retracted, What Is Not

February 1, 2011

Charles Schulz under scrutiny for Seroquel study suicide

One of the most horrific recent cases of unethical, medical experimentation, concucted at a prestigious US university,

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Charles Schulz under scrutiny for Seroquel study suicide

December 27, 2010

8 Professors demand independent investigation of death in clinical trial

The disturbing circumstances surrounding the enrollment and subsequent suicide of Dan Markingson (2004) after he was given

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8 Professors demand independent investigation of death in clinical trial

December 25, 2010

Why We Still Kill Patients: Invisibility, Inertia, And Income

Between 1978 and 1999, 2.5 million American men, women and children died preventable deaths in US hospitals

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Why We Still Kill Patients: Invisibility, Inertia, And Income

November 29, 2010

Hospital Safety: NEJM Study Finds No Progress

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report, To Err is Human, documenting the extraordinary

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Hospital Safety: NEJM Study Finds No Progress

November 13, 2010

Medical Journals Complicit in Corruption of Medicine

For years, the Alliance for Human Research Protection has been disseminating news reports documenting the corrosive impact

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Medical Journals Complicit in Corruption of Medicine

October 14, 2010

FDA: This Agency Can Be Dangerous_Marcia Angell

The FDA is currently not structured to ensure that drugs are safe or clinically valuable–as is its

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FDA: This Agency Can Be Dangerous_Marcia Angell

September 23, 2010

Former Sen Finance Committee Investigator Speaks Out

"…what they’ve been doing for years is buying off doctors to sell their products and a doctor’s

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Former Sen Finance Committee Investigator Speaks Out

August 30, 2010

Research Integrity: Don’t Mess With the DSMB

An editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, by its editor Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., and

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Research Integrity: Don’t Mess With the DSMB

August 9, 2010

Anesthesiologist who Committed Major Fraud Claims Bipolar Defense

In 2009, Anesthesiology News reported that a routine audit at Baystate Medical Center (in 2008) uncovered "one

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Anesthesiologist who Committed Major Fraud Claims Bipolar Defense

July 10, 2010

Devastating FDA Safety Review of Avandia

Until now, FDA officials in the all-powerful center for new drug evaluation (called CEDER), have, for the

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Devastating FDA Safety Review of Avandia