FDA Guidelines Targeted Children for HIV Vaccine Experiments_ Africa-AIDS Numbers Overstated_WashPos
This is an action alert to prevent the abuse of children who are sought as guinea pigs in HIV-AIDS vaccine trials!
“Corruption & Pharmceuticals”–World Bank/ Blocking Generics–Peter Rost / WashPost
"Corruption in any one of the critical decision points in the pharmaceutical system can be detrimental to a country’s ability to improve the health of its population." [World Banki]
Poisoning Children_SF Chronicle
"Top Republicans — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill– recently sold the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop."
An Out of Control Profession_NewScientist / Infant Mental Health Now Targeted by Psychiatry_MSNBC
A report in The New Scientist, "Prescribing of Hyperactivity Drugs is Out of Control," shows just how deviant U.S. prescribing of psychostimulants for
children is compared to the rest of the world.
India: Guinea Pig to the World_Wired Mag
The pharmaceutical industry’s dilemma: there are few volunteers in the drug-consuming prosperous countries–so they have taken half their business to underdeveloped countries.
Mercury Crimes at CDC
"It’s time for the CDC to come clean with the American public. Its tactics of deception and obfuscation are jeopardizing the credibility of the entire vaccine program, and therefore posing an enormous danger to public health." Robert Kennedy, Jr. See letter to FDA Commissioner.
Montreal Clinical Trial Subjects Expoxed to Tuberculosis
Bloomberg News published an update to its sensational special report: Big Pharma’s Shameful Secret
see: https://ahrp.org/infomail/05/11/03.php
Scientific American: Preparing for a Pandemic
Scientific American: Preparing for a Pandemic Wed, 26 Oct 2005 An article in Scientific American (excerpt below) provides a totally different explanation of a pandemic influenza outbreak than that offered in reports sent in yesterday’s Infomail. Two sites have been highly recommended for reliable information: FLU WIKI: http://www.fluwikie.com/ and EFFECT…
Forest Labs Admits Concealment of data – Congressional Probe Expands
Forest Labs Admits Concealment of data – Congressional Probe Expands Sat, 26 Jun 2004 New York Times business reporter, Barry Meier, reports, “Forest officials had not told a medical journal about a failed unpublished study in 2002 of Celexa use in children and adolescents, before the journal published an article…
Antidepressants – USA Today Editorial / AHRP OpEd/ WSJ Editorial Bashes Spitzer
Antidepressants – USA Today Editorial / AHRP OpEd/ WSJ Editorial Bashes Spitzer Mon, 21 Jun 2004 The debate about antidepressants, concealment of clinical trial data, and failure to warn about a suicide risk, is reaching an ever broader public. An editorial in USA Today and an invited Op Ed by…
References: Impact of FDA inclusion of children as test subjects
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…
AHRP Comments on Smallpox Vaccine Testing on Children 2 to 5 Years of Age
Recent public and professional debate about smallpox vaccine and its risks provides the framework for evaluating the ethical justification for conducting clinical trials on children. Dryvax is a particularly impure product made of live vaccinia virus harvested from the pustules of calves infected with (it is believed) cowpox. Although the vaccine, which is scratched on the skin, only causes mild infections in most people, in a small but significant number the infection caused serious adverse reactions similar to the complications of the disease they were designed to prevent: painful, disfiguring skin disorders, blindness, neurological impairments and death.