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At FDA, Graham is still the whistle-blower
Loss of Trust: Big Drug Makers See Sales Decline With Their Image
War hero’s death in clinical trial follows years of FDA neglect
European perspective: Bird Flu / Rumsfeld Tamiflu stock $5 to $25 million
Big Pharma’s Shameful Secret–Bloomberg/ Clinical Trials Stopped Early for perceived benefit later turned out false–JAMA
Twin Pharma Give-A-Ways: Biodefense Vaccine Development Act /Bird Flu Plan
FDA May Require Longer Studies Before Approving Psych Drugs
Former FDA Commissioner says FDA lost public trust
Jones reveals TMAP drug scam linked to then Governor George W. Bush
20% Drop in Psych Drugs Prescribed for US Children
Epidemiologist: Most Published Research Findings False – Psychiatrist: Credibility Crisis
A Taxpayer-Funded Clinical Trial Registry Exists!
Medicaid may shrink $5.5 Bill spending on Schizophrenia Drug
TIME inquiry: top officials at vital gov agencies lack credentials for the job
What the FDA Isn’t Telling You – SLATE
FDA Commissioner Crawford Resigns
Federal Study Finds No Benefit of New Antipsychotic Drugs
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Orgs & NCQA
Anatomy of an Epidemic – Whitaker
Universities Misappropriate Federal Grants – Cornell Doctor Blows Whistle Alleging Phantom Studies
Cymbalta Contract: How Lilly Influences What Prescribers Learn
Congress Bars EPA from accepting human pesticide data
US Epidemic: Controlled Prescription Drug Abuse
Jury awards $635,177 Damages for Memory Loss from Electroshock
Concealed NIH Review Substantiates Fired Expert’s Concerns
AMA Serves Pharma Marketing Priority/ FDA To Add Warnings on ADHD drugs
1/3 US Scientists Admit Unethical Research Practices
Suicide Rate Unchanged in 10 Years / AMA Considers Stand Against Warning Labels
Most Americans Will Be Mentally Ill – NIMH / Harvard Study Says
Treating children as young as 4 for bipolar – WSJ
A National Scandal: AIDS Drug Experiments on Foster Care Children
A Serious Drug Problem – The Medicare Prescription Bill of 2003
The Power of $4 bill Drug Ads: Doctors Respond with Diagnosis & Prescription
Drugmakers Go Furthest to Sway Congress: 1,274 Lobbyists – USA Today
Depressed? NYC Screens for People at Risk
UK: Drugs firms ‘creating ills for every pill / US ‘Bioshield’ Drug-Patent Plan Draws Fire
NIH Scientists Caught Concealing Millions in Royalties
Intimidation, Politics and Drug Industry – FDA Permits Graham to publish Vioxx Report
Credibility Crisis: Survey FDA Scientists – Death in NIH-AIDS Trial – Tauzin Moves to PhRMA
Sen Grassley to Offer Mandatory Drug Data Registry Bill
Just Say No – Forbes
Prescription Drug Industry: The Insiders – AARP Bulletin
Dr. Loren Mosher, 1933 – 2004
Pharma Influence: Penn Whistleblower Lawsuit – Medicare Chief Lied
Scientists Decode Secret of NIH Grants
Bush Plans to Screen Whole US Population for Mental Illness
More than 100 gov officials represented industry
Doctors Without Borders: Why you can’t trust medical journals
FDA Bad Faith – Daniel Troy’s pre-emption defense
Ethics Policy Announced for NIH Officials – LAT
Drug Companies and Research at NIH
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AHRP Statement on MH Screening – FDA Hearing Re: Drug Advertising
AHRP Testimony: Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials
Statement Opposing the SACHRP Children’s Committee Recommendations
Statement by Vera Hassner Sharav, Anthrax Band Reunion Press Conference
AHRP Ethical and Scientific Objections to FDA’s Proposed Licensure of Anthrax Vaccine
Testimony of Meryl Nass, MD – Senate HELP Committee, Subcommittee on Bioterrorism
US Gov Pesticide Exposure Experiments: Target Children–$970 per child – Wash Post
AHRP Press Briefing 9/14/04: Antidepressants & suicide-related risks for children
Open Letter to NIMH re Prozac & Concealed Suicide Attempts
Open Letter to Officials at NIMH
AHRP Briefing 2/2/04: Scientists present suicide evidence
Conflicts of Interest policy – New York Times
Phase I Drug Trials Used Foster Care children in Violation of 45 CFR 46.409 and 21 CFR 50.56
AHRP Testimonies re: Fatal ARDS lung experiment
AHRP Comments: DHHS COI Guidance for Human Subject Protection
Children are Humans: Don’t Sacrifice their Rights, Dignity & Welfare
“Should the EPA Accept Human Pesticide Experiments?", testimony by Vera Sharav before Committee of The National Academies of Science
AHRP Comments on Smallpox Vaccine Testing on Children 2 to 5 Years of Age
AHRP Press Release Children Policy Recommendations
AHRP Replies to OHRP Response re Surrogate Consent.
AHRP Comments Re: DHHS Notice of Proposed Recommendation Regarding Support of Research Protocol: "Precursors to Diabetes in Japanese American Youth"
Media interviews Dr. Meryl Nass re: anthrax vaccine and anthrax attacks
Critique: U.S. to Vaccinate 500,000 Workers Against Smallpox (7/7/02)
Memorandum in opposition to California AB 2328
"Conflicts of Interest In Clinical Trials", a presentation by Vera Hassner Sharav before the US Army Medical Department and Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine
Congressional Testimony re: Protecting Children in Research
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Congressional Investigations
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Drugs, Devices & Doctors – Krugman Scientific Fraud & Corruption on Both sides of Atlantic: Merck / Proctor & Gamble AHRP Comments Re: EPA Proposed Rule for Human Pesticide Research
Unethical Experimentation on Foster Children
Timeline and Links – Unethical Experimentation on Foster Children Letters Challenge NY Times Report re: AIDS drug/ vaccine experiments on foster children OHRP preliminary findings fault Columbia University Medical Center Congressional Hearings – Testimony by Roberta Harris, Deputy Secretary, Wisconsin Dept. of Health / Family Services Congressional Hearings – AHRP statement and recommendations for the record A National Scandal: AIDS Drug Experiments on Foster Care Children – AP AHRP Letter of Complaint: Phase I AIDS Drug/Vaccine Experiment on Foster Children
Safety of Depression’s ‘Wonder Drugs’ Investigated After a Decade of Lies, Deception and Cover-up
Mark Miller, whose son, Mat, committed suicide while on Zoloft, has trumped Pfizer in his rendition of their new Zoloft advertisement published in Oprah magazine. See the parody on DrugAwareness: http://www.drugawareness.org/pdf/zoloftad.pdf
Mosholder Report: Suicidality in Pediatric Clinical Trials GSK Internal Memo Analysis of Prozac/Paxil/Zoloft use in US, 1988-2002 (pdf) US Paxil Suicide Calculations, 1993-2002
NIMH Grants to Study SSRI Suicidality – FDA to Examine SSRI-Suicide in Adults SC Supreme Court To Hear Christopher Pittman Appeal FDA Response to Utah Court Must Be Truthful Re: Zoloft / SSRI Suicidal Risks Two Court Rulings Reject Pfizer-FDA Preemption Claim in Zoloft “failure to warn” FDA Public Health Advisory: SSRI-Suicide link in adults Traci Johnson driven to suicide by anti-depressants? Trade secret SSRI Defects: Infants Suffer Drug Withdrawal / Adults risk GI bleeding FDA Slaps Pfizer on Zoloft Ads After AHRP Files Complaint Petition FDA to Investigate if SSRI Induced School Shootings Zoloft Warnings to Canadian Doctors – FDA Caves In to Lobbying Eli Lilly Prozac Documents: What do They Reveal? Prozac Suicide Risk – CNN Posts long concealed Eli Lilly Internal Documents Contracts Keep Drug Research Findings Concealed FDA Orders Black Box Warnings – Suicide risk Psychiatry on the Ropes–WP / Evidence-based Psychiatry BBC – Taken on Trust – 13 years-Medical Deception Janssen Admits Hiding Risperdal Risks / TMAP & Illinois Mental Health Screening Effexor warnings added: neonatal effects and suicidality Forest Labs Admits Data Concealment – Cong. Probe Expands NY Times Editorial: When Drug Companies Hide Data FDA role in suppressing damaging data – WSJ Bristol Myers Squibb Takes Serzone off the market Recycled drugs: failed antidepressants Unpublished Trials Suggest Most SSRIs Unsuitable for Children Expert FDA Report: SSRI Suicide risk Rate of Preschool Kids Prescribed Antidepressants Skyrockets Antidepressant Controversy: Media Conflicts of Interest What GSK really thinks about Paxil for Children Lilly duloxetine drug trial–19 Quit after a suicide Healthy 19 year old volunteer suicides at Eli Lilly laboratory Prescription for Suicide? Time Magazine Drug report barred by FDA Scientist links antidepressants to suicide in kids Antidepressant Makers Withhold Data on Children UK doctors told: No Prozac for kids; No Prozac for PMDD Medscape Cites AHRP Concerns Re: New Law Wyeth Pharma Warns Doctors Against Rx Effexor to Kids 74% children prescribed SSRI suffer adverse effects GlascoSmithKline Paxil Warning letter to UK Healthcare Professionals UK Government Bans Paxil for children
New Presentations, Publications, and Testimonies
Cheaper than Chimpanzees Statement re: Revisions to DHHS Regulations on Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research – Sharav Protecting People with Mental Disabilities & Impairments Against Biomedical Research Abuse – Noble & Sharav AHRP Ethical and Scientific Objections to FDA’s Proposed Licensure of Anthrax Vaccine Testimony: Senate HELP Committee, Subcommittee on Bioterrorism – Dr. Meryl Nass The Impact of the FDA Modernization Act – Vera Sharav article Best Pharmaceuticals for Children’s Act of 2002 – AHRP Comments Broken Brains or Flawed Studies? – Dr. Cohen & Dr. Leo Children in Clinical Research: A Conflict of Moral Values – Vera Sharav AHRP Letter in NEJM re ARDS Investigation Interview with Dr. Loren Mosher – San Diego Reader AHRP Testimonies re: Fatal ARDS lung experiment AHRP Children Policy Recommendations
Why did OHRP SHRED informed consent documents China Daily update: Harvard genetic research in rural China China Daily challenges US genetic experiments on poor farmers OHRP Found NHLBI / ARDS Lung Experiments Violated Informed Consent Research dispute prompts patient-trials debate – Seattle Times OHRP Letter to ARDSNetwork re: Investigation of ARDS Study EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People: Spoon-Feeding Poison Artificial Heart experiment without informed consent? Research at US Veterans Hospitals Nationwide Under Investigation – NYT Anthrax Vaccine Consent Form / Should You Roll Up Your Sleeves – WSJ
AHRP is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors.
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