...ve identification, but manufacturers prefer ambiguity rather than definitive evidence about their drug's risks .
The truth about the most serious FDA-approved drug hazards were concealed fr...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
...risk of heart attacks--and death--to a competitor drug, Actos, whose safety record shows no such serious risks .
GSK argued before an FDA advisory committee that a head to head trial would ...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
...a have plaques. So, the tests pose high risk of overdiagnosis.
Furthermore, the invasive tests pose risks --even at prestigious academic centers: PET scans pose potential risk from radiation, and ...
Monday, 19 July 2010
...psed.
While GSK executives were applauding their blockbuster sales, patients were
unaware of the risks they were being subjected to in pursuit of corporate
profit.
FDA&rsq...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
...we are in jeopardy of giving patients the wrong drugs.”
Indeed, evidence of serious concealed risks is uncovered mostly during litigation. Such evidence has demonstrated that major drug man...
Saturday, 10 July 2010
...rcola:
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BNET
Glaxo Is Testing Paxil on 7-Year-Olds Despite Well Known Suicide Risks
By Jim Edwards
May 21, 2010
It was established years ago that Paxil carrie...
Sunday, 13 June 2010
... for vast numbers of children.
Doctors who prescribe such drugs are disregarding the documented risks of harm for children. Clearly children's vulnerability is being exploited: they are being...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
...ont cancer, including much more rigorous regulation of chemicals.
Traditionally, we reduce cancer risks through regular doctor visits, self-examinations and screenings such as mammograms. The P...
Saturday, 08 May 2010
...und by a court
of law or the Department of Justice--to have illegally marketed the drug
by concealing risks or incidence of adverse effects, or making
unsupported claims of clinical benefit--shou...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
... are required to receive “informed consent” from subjects, ensuring that they understand the risks and benefits before they participate. But such protections were designed primarily for re...
Thursday, 22 April 2010
...s--the measles vaccine and the other rotavirus vaccine, Merck's Rotateq.
All vaccines pose serious risks of harm which are not detected in pre-marketing tests. Vaccines should, therefore, be jud...
Saturday, 17 April 2010
....
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REUTERS
Popular anticonvulsant drugs raise suicide risks
Julie Steenhuysen
Apr 13, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Widely used anticonvuls...
Friday, 16 April 2010
...risk/ benefit analyses of medical treatments as a means of reducing healthcare costs--and also to reduce risks of serious side-effects from unnecessary treatments.
He notes the likely resistance ...
Thursday, 08 April 2010
...ailed to describe the purpose of the research, the nature of the experimental design, or to disclose the risks and alternative standard treatment. OHRP's letter acknowledged:
"at nearly all s...
Monday, 05 April 2010
...me of medication.”
Vera Hassner Sharav
The New York Times
March 30, 2010
Risks Seen in Cholesterol Drug Use in Healthy People
By DUFF WILSON
With the governm...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
...uld promote a large expansion in the use of antipsychotic medications, with all of the serious attendant risks described above. Apparently, the Work Group was trying to correct excessive diagnosis of ...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
...e true: only 1 in 7 new drugs offers any clinical advantage over older drugs. Most new drugs pose higher risks --inasmuch as they have not been tested sufficiently--especially for long-term use, wherea...
Friday, 05 March 2010
...which the FDA has required warnings.
While these cases do not appear to signal previously undetected risks of rosiglitazone, the large
number of reports alleging serious and fatal injuries ass...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
...ment (2004). They wanted to suppress public disclosure of evidence showing that Avandia posed high risks for heart attacks and heart-related deaths--which were documented in the company's own da...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
... Patient Harm?
Medical ethics requires that in any research involving human beings, "the benefits, risks , burdens and effectiveness of a new intervention must be tested against those of the best...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Even worse, FDA officials, in
collusion and collaboration with GSK, approved an unethical and exploitative
clinical trial—TIDE, which is on-going.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
...know. The decision to vaccinate must come from an informed decision that balances the benefits and risks of vaccination and Pap screening. Most adolescents will involve an adult (usually a paren...
Thursday, 18 February 2010
...criminal marketing of this drug for unapproved, off-label use in children and the elderly. The concealed risks , buried in company documents, were brought to public light only through litigation!
...
Thursday, 11 February 2010
...ment (fresh blood) which is believed to be better than current practice, against current practice.
Risks are minimized in the Canadian trial by exposing patients only to therapies that may benef...
Thursday, 28 January 2010
...he informed consent document given to patients is vague and misleading. Under the heading "possible risks , side effects, and discomforts," the patient informed consent states:
"Bl...
Friday, 22 January 2010
...e to protect the public from dangerous drugs whose mostly illusory benefits are far outweighed by severe risks , thereby undermining public health? Independent analyses have consistently shown th...
Friday, 15 January 2010
...On Tuesday, a pediatric advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration met to discuss the health risks for all children who take antipsychotics. The panel will consider recommending new label ...
Saturday, 12 December 2009
...er for the Northeastern US, acknowledged that her team promoted Bextra to doctors without disclosing the risks , and also acknowledged that her team "had solicited hospitals to create protocols to...
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
...that the new surgeries are not backed by new scientific evidence of their benefit to justify the serious risks involved:
"The great promise of neuroscience at the end of the last century ...
Friday, 27 November 2009
...ucted to document the risk for children, the Black Box would be expanded.
Despite the serious risks --including death--these two groups--institutionalized old people and children out-of-fami...
Saturday, 31 October 2009
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