What possible risk/ benefit standard can justify giving an inadequately studied vaccine whose risks include serious, permanent adverse effects–including death– to millions of girls and women–who will likely never get cervical cancer?
Today’s New York Times reports (below) that "court documents provide a paper trail showing that Wyeth contracted with a medical communications company to outline articles, draft them and then solicit top physicians to sign their names, even though many of the doctors contributed little or no writing."
“I was trained from day one to market the drug illegally…My job was to promote Neurontin and motivate doctors to experiment on patients. After being hired as a medical liaison, I was selling drugs. The uses promoted were from the “snake-oil list” of 13 medical conditions."
The FDA’s expanded marketing approval process for antipsychotics, highly toxic drugs, is unaffected by evidence uncovered by the US Justice Department showing that the studies submitted by drug manufacturers were often flawed, if not fraudulent.
Merck is reported to have created a fake "peer-reviewed" journal to present favorable data that made its potentially fatal drugs–Fosamax and Vioxx–look good.
The Hill , a newspaper covering congressional news, reports: "Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) is considering leaving his powerful post as senior Republican on the Finance Committee so that he can become the highest-ranking Republican on the Judiciary panel. To avoid a dramatic shake-up, Grassley is hoping to strike a deal…
The FDA expanded approval process for toxic drugs is unaffected by evidence uncovered by the US Justice Department showing the studies to be flawed, if not fraudulent.
"Radical restructuring, not merger mania, is the need of our time." Dr. William Haseltine
A document filed in Federal District Court, Orlando Fla, by plaintiffs "in response to AstraZeneca’s motion to exclude evidence and argument about Dr. Macfadden’s personal relationships," sheds light on yet another facet of manipulation–sexual exploitation.
Pharmaceutical companies willingly settle court cases for hundreds of millions of dollars–even billions of dollars–to keep the truth about their drugs under seal.
A follow-up letter to FDA Commissioner, Andrew vonEschenbach RE: Thomas Laughren, FDA’s ‘s Director of Psychiatry Products who has been actively promoting psychotropic drugs–even penning his name to ghostwritten industry-sponsored articles and consensus panels.
Complaint about a surge of FDA administrative approvals for expanded use of highly toxic antipsychotic drugs for children. Approvals were determined by Dr. Thomas Laughren after secret deliberations–without disclosure of scientific data, without an advisory panel or open public discussion.
