A report by the Institute of Medicine is sharply critical of FDA’s drug safety monitoring system: "The report’s conclusions are striking and often damning – particularly when discussing the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, known as C.D.E.R."
Pharmaceutical industry corrupt practices are in evidence again, and again, and again.
AIR: America’s Investigative Reports, is a new Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series whose first report, "A Bitter Pill," airs Friday, Sept. 8.
An illuminating essay by Byron Richards, author of Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America, should be required reading for every member of Congress before voting Yes or NO on the appointment of Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, who is poised to head the FDA.
USA Today reports that last year the pharmaceutical industry "faced the most product liability lawsuits of any other industry."
The verdict is th fourth multi-million dollar loss for Merck in Vioxx litigation.
A Boston Globe report (below) focuses on three recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Harvard researchers who violated the journal’s disclosure policy by failing to disclose their financial ties to companies that had the most to gain from their purported findings.
Tune in tonight–Monday– to Court TV: the subject is medical experimentation on prisoners–What does this say about our moral climate?
Every federal oversight agency evaluating FDA’s safety performance has given the agency flunking grades. See:https://ahrp.org/cms/content/view/148/55/
The harm done by journals’ failure to protect the integrity of science can hardly be overstated.
Bloomberg News reports (below) that Senator Charles Grassley has asked the Inspector General to investigate collusion between FDA officials and Merck. Citing handwritten notes prepared by a Merck executive document a meeting with FDA division director, Brian Harvey, suggesting a joint effort "to get the message out" to discredit Dr….
Three essays provide an overview of the bias that has debased the integrity of medical research literature while increasing the hazards of medical practice–for patients and doctors who are kept in the dark about prescribed treatment dangers.
