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From: Binstock <binstock@...>

Subject to approval: An investigation into clinical drug

trials abroad

By Lucy Kennedy

June 10, 2011

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/health/video-subject-to-approval-an-investigation-into-clinical-drug-trials-abroad/9782/

This week, we hear from two veteran investigative journalists about their

findings on the way some drugs make their way into your medicine cabinet.

Here’s what you need to know. Drugs are tested for safety and

effectiveness in what are known as clinical trials. You might think those

trials always take place under the careful scrutiny of regulators charged

with ensuring that the drugs will be safe to prescribe ­ and that those

people taking part in the trials are safe as well. But as we’ve learned,

it’s time to think again.

Steele and his colleague Barlett are Pulitzer-winning

investigative journalists. Reporting over a combined 90 years, they have

covered everything from gaping tax loopholes to the dangers of nuclear

waste to congressional favoritism of corporations over retirees. But they

say when it comes to lack of accountability, there’s nothing quite like

the health care industry.

- - - -

see also:

Confidential Expert Witness Report Documents

Psychiatrists' Corrupt Practices

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/822/9/

" From the start, the [Tri-University Schizophrenia Practice

Guidelines] project subverted scientific integrity, appearing to be a

purely scientific venture when it was at its core, a marketing venture

for Risperdal. "

The case filed against & by and the

State of Texas was recently postponed until November. But some of the

documents from the case are now publicly available at the County,

Texas courthouse.

The confidential Expert Witness Report by Dr. Rothman of Columbia

University (March 22, 2011), is the most damning document that we've seen

in which not only is J & J's " detestable " conduct--as

described by Judge Couch who presided over the court decision against J

& J in South Carolina--laid bare, but Rothman's report also describes

the shameless active collaboration by prominent academic

psychiatrists--including the Chairman of the DSM-IV....

The drugs your doctor prescribes may kill you

How Drug Companies Corrupt Medical Journals

June 6, 11:51 AM ET | By n s

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-drug-companies-corrupt-medical-journals-20110606

Flacking for Big Pharma

Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical

journals and skew medical research

By Harriet Washington

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma/

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start April 22

[Guest guest]

From: Binstock <binstock@...>

Subject to approval: An investigation into clinical drug

trials abroad

By Lucy Kennedy

June 10, 2011

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/health/video-subject-to-approval-an-investigation-into-clinical-drug-trials-abroad/9782/

This week, we hear from two veteran investigative journalists about their

findings on the way some drugs make their way into your medicine cabinet.

Here’s what you need to know. Drugs are tested for safety and

effectiveness in what are known as clinical trials. You might think those

trials always take place under the careful scrutiny of regulators charged

with ensuring that the drugs will be safe to prescribe ­ and that those

people taking part in the trials are safe as well. But as we’ve learned,

it’s time to think again.

Steele and his colleague Barlett are Pulitzer-winning

investigative journalists. Reporting over a combined 90 years, they have

covered everything from gaping tax loopholes to the dangers of nuclear

waste to congressional favoritism of corporations over retirees. But they

say when it comes to lack of accountability, there’s nothing quite like

the health care industry.

- - - -

see also:

Confidential Expert Witness Report Documents

Psychiatrists' Corrupt Practices

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/822/9/

" From the start, the [Tri-University Schizophrenia Practice

Guidelines] project subverted scientific integrity, appearing to be a

purely scientific venture when it was at its core, a marketing venture

for Risperdal. "

The case filed against & by and the

State of Texas was recently postponed until November. But some of the

documents from the case are now publicly available at the County,

Texas courthouse.

The confidential Expert Witness Report by Dr. Rothman of Columbia

University (March 22, 2011), is the most damning document that we've seen

in which not only is J & J's " detestable " conduct--as

described by Judge Couch who presided over the court decision against J

& J in South Carolina--laid bare, but Rothman's report also describes

the shameless active collaboration by prominent academic

psychiatrists--including the Chairman of the DSM-IV....

The drugs your doctor prescribes may kill you

How Drug Companies Corrupt Medical Journals

June 6, 11:51 AM ET | By n s

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-drug-companies-corrupt-medical-journals-20110606

Flacking for Big Pharma

Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical

journals and skew medical research

By Harriet Washington

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma/

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start April 22