Debate Resumes on the Safety of Depression’s Wonder Drugs – NYT Thu, 7 Aug 2003 After a decade of lies, deception, and cover-up of evidence linking antidepression drugs – such as, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft – to acts of suicide in previously non-suicidal people – children and adults, some of who…
Rate of Preschool Kids Prescribed Antidepressants Skyrockets – Cong Investigates FDA Fri, 2 Apr 2004 A new survey by Express Scripts found the rate at which American children are prescribed antidepressants almost doubled (49%) in 5 years. The steepest unfathomable, medically unsupportable, increase–64%–was among preschool children. This is evidence of…
ACNP – a pharmaceutical industry funded association of psychiatrists – claims SSRI Antidepressants don’t increase suicidal behavior Wed, 21 Jan 2004 related links: Reply to ACNP Report – Jonathan Leo, Ph.D. FDA Sham Conflicts of Interest Policy The American College of Neuropsychopharmacologists (ACNP), an organization of psychiatrists with significant financial…
Toxicologist Blames Prozac for Wife’s Suicide – UK Fri, 27 Jun 2003 News reports from the UK are awash with cases of drug-induced violent suicidal behavior by patients taking Prozac, Paxil and the other antidepressant drugs in their class–i.e., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. A coroner’s inquest of the suicide by…
American Eugenics: Bad Seed or Bad Science? Sat, 8 Feb 2003 The New York Times reports: “For more than a century, the Juke clan was presented as America’s most despised family.” The Jukes family was categorized by social scientists as “congenital misfits, criminals, harlots, epileptics and mental defectives.” But the…
References for THE IMPACT OF THE FDA MODERNIZATION ACT ON THE RECRUITMENT OF CHILDREN FOR RESEARCH Vera Hassner Sharav Published in ETHICAL HUMAN SCIENCES & SERVICES Summer 2003, vol. 5 pp. 83-108 Agency for Health Care Research & Quality. (1999). Treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Summary, evidence Report / Technology assessment…
18 Deaths Linked to drug – Serzone Removed from European market, not US Fri, 17 Jan 2003 Bloomberg News reported that the antidepressant, Serzone had been linked to 25 cases of liver damage and 18 deaths. On Jan 8, 2003 European authorities removed the drug from the European market. On…
FDA approves anti-psychotic, clozapine, to treat suicide December 20, 2002 The first of the so-called atypical antipsychotic drugs, clozapine (Clozaril), has been approved by the FDA as a treatment against suicide in patients with schizophrenia. The drug has been hailed as a miracle for some, but deadly for others. The…
Lawsuits & press info RE: SSRI addiction / suicide risk–not scientific literature Fri, 25 Oct To gain knowledge about the scope of a serious threat to public health–i.e., severe adverse drug effects of antidepressant drugs– physicians and consumers must turn to the popular and alternative press, rather than “peer reviewed”…
Insead of producing drugs for recognized diseases, drug manufacturers are creating diseasesin order to sell their drugs.
Bitter Pill for David Healy: academia under pharma influence May 21, 2002 One wonders how many embarrassing causes celebres are needed before academic institutions take back control of the university from the corrosive influence of the pharmaceutical/ biotech industry? In 2000, Dr. David Healy may have been surprised by the…
Presented by Vera Hassner Sharav
14th Tri-Service Clinical Investigation Symposium
Sponsored by The U.S. Army Medical Department and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancment of Military Medicine
The cornerstone of public trust in medical research is the integrity of academic institutions and the expectation that universities, which rely on public funding, have a responsibility to serve the public good. Financial conflicts of interest affect millions of American people – those who are subjects of clinical trials testing new drugs and those who are prescribed drugs after their approval.
