The Damaging Impact of PDUFA and Why It Should be Repealed
The re-prioritization of rapid approvals occurred at the expense of drug safety standards,
Daubert Explicated: Putting Science in the Dock_The Nation
"Daubert lets judges have much too much leeway to follow their personal inclinations," says Stanley Feldman, retired chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
AACAP President Disingenuous RE: Psychiatric Drugs that Killed 4-year old
This young child represents millions of children in the United States who are falling prey to licensed, but irresponsible prescribers of toxic drugs.
Journal Publishers Hire PR “Pit Bull” to Attack Open Access_Nature
The journal, Nature, reports that the American Association of Publishers (AAP) has hired Eric Dezenhall to fight against open access scientific articles.
Reputations for Sale ? BMJ-BBC-Panorama-Seroxat/ Paxil
BBC-Panorama–third in a series: The Secrets of Seroxat. "In the interests of patients and professional integrity" is to show those who have sold their reputations "intolerance and exposure."
Role of Litigation in Defining Drug Risks_JAMA / BMJ
Documents uncovered during the course of litigation shed light on real risks of drug-induced harm that would not otherwise be known.
FDA Rescinds–Advisory Hearing on Suicide Opened to Speakers WhoWere Locked Out
Two Press Briefings are planned to demonstrate the multiple flaws in FDA's methodology and to provide credible science-based information.
Assaultive Prescribing of Psych Drugs for Children
Australian psychiatrist: "Does anyone else see tardive dysmentia after atypicalantipsychotics?"
U.S. Doctors are prescribing the antidepressant, Effexor (150mg) for infants under age one!
Flu Vaccine–where is the evidence?
This is an addendum to yesterday's Infomail in which we disseminated disinformation issued by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC). www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/396/80
Psychiatry News: High Cost of Nondisclosure
Legislation is needed to ensure that conflicts of interest rules in medicine are enforced. One method for reigning in the abuse is to prohibit government grant awards to any researcher who violates financial conflict of interest rules.
Scientific Fraud: Eric Poehlman / Richard Borison
Medical researchers who commit fraud and research misconduct are caught only when a person of conscience steps up to the plate and blows the whistle. There are no systemic, independent checks and balances to prevent research fraud or abuse of patients.
FDA’s Lethal Weakness Requires More than Committees
FDA’s Lethal Weakness Requires More than Committees Sun, 7 Nov 2004 Bloomberg News reports that New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer requested information from Pfizer about the promotion of some of its drugs for unapproved uses – the recalled diabetes drug, Rezulin and the antidepressant, Zoloft were named. In…