Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?_ABC News

[Guest guest]

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?_ABC News

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)

Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/

FYI

ABC News reports that antipsychotic drugs are being tested on

toddlers at Harvard University affiliate hospital, Massachusetts

General Children's Hospital.

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

The drugs being tested on very young, defenseless children are the

most toxic, harm producing psychotropic prescription drugs marketed.

The indisputable evidence of these drugs' severe adverse effects in

adults with schizophrenia is now being acknowledged by leading

psychiatrists:

In an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Carol

Tamminga, acknowledged: " the side effect outcomes are staggering in

their magnitude and extent and demonstrate the significant medication

burden for persons with schizophrenia.… "

See: Dr. Carol Tamminga, " Practical Treatment Information for

Schizophrenia " Editorial, AJP, April, 2006, vol. 163:563-565.

How can anyone justify the use of four-year old children as human

drug testing guinea pigs?

The experiments described by ABC News expose small children to drugs

so toxic they disrupt normal biological and mental function, damage

major organs, produce debilitating, chronic diseases such as

diabetes, leading to premature death?

According to its website, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, is the

largest of the Harvard Medical School teaching facilities, the

hospital. "

" the oldest provider of pediatric services in Boston, has provided

comprehensive care for children since 1821. It is consistently ranked

by U.S. News and World Report, Annual Guide to America's Best

Hospitals, and was ranked number 16 in the 2003 edition. Through its

growing network of community-based facilities and pediatricians, the

hospital's excellent care is conveniently accessible to families

throughout the region. "

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

If these experiments were approved by the FDA, and passed the

institutional review boards (IRBs) of Harvard and MassGeneral, what

does it say about the debasement of academic medicine?

Clearly the system for safeguarding the children's right to be free

from the risks of medical experiments that are not in their best

interest, is broken and must be replaced.

Join AHRP's efforts to stop the putting children in harm's way in

medical experiments.

Help AHRP --we need a hosting a website for a petition to stop

experimental exploitation of children.

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare@...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/tots_used_as_hu.html

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?

May 12, 2006 10:56 AM

ph Rhee Reports:

ABC News has learned that a Massachusetts hospital is currently

recruiting pre-schoolers to test the safety and effectiveness of a

powerful antipsychotic drug called Quetiapine.

The study, conducted by the Department of Pediatric

Psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is testing

subjects from four to six years of age with Bipolar Disorder. An

earlier Massachusetts General study of the antipsychotic drugs

Risperidone and Olanzapine recruited children as young as three years

old.

These antipsychotic drugs are only approved for use by adults and are

so toxic they carry a " black box warning. " The drugs have been found

to cause diabetes; a life-threatening nervous system problem called

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome; low blood pressure; and have also led

to higher death rates in the elderly. Despite these serious potential

side-effects, a patient recruitment video obtained by ABC News

contains no mention of any of these risks.

Vera Hassner Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection

said, " Antipsychotics were never approved for use in children whose

developing brains and central nervous system may be irreversibly

harmed. We believe that physicians who subject children to the toxic

effects of these drugs...are practicing outside medically accepted

standards. "

A previous clinical trial of Olanzapine was conducted by UCLA in 1998

on five children, aged 6 to 11. The authors of the study said

treatment was discontinued within the first six weeks " because of

adverse effects or lack of clinically significant therapeutic

response. "

Sharav also said it's questionable whether or not three or four year-

olds can be accurately diagnosed for Bipolar Disorder. According to a

1999 Surgeon General report, " The signs and symptoms of mental

disorders are often also the characteristics of normal development. "

The National Institute for Mental Health has concluded

that " diagnostic uncertainty...surrounds most manifestations of

psychopathology at such an early age. "

Neither the hospital nor the lead investigator for the trials, Dr.

ph Biederman, responded to our requests for a comment on the

trials.

Click here for information on the Massachusetts General clinical

trial.

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00181883?order=1

Click for FDA Information Sheet on antipsychotic drugs.

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/antipsychotics/default.htm

FAIR USE NOTICE: This may contain copyrighted (© ) material the use

of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright

owner. Such material is made available for educational purposes, to

advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral,

ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this

constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided

for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This

material is distributed without profit.

[Guest guest]

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?_ABC News

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)

Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/

FYI

ABC News reports that antipsychotic drugs are being tested on

toddlers at Harvard University affiliate hospital, Massachusetts

General Children's Hospital.

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

The drugs being tested on very young, defenseless children are the

most toxic, harm producing psychotropic prescription drugs marketed.

The indisputable evidence of these drugs' severe adverse effects in

adults with schizophrenia is now being acknowledged by leading

psychiatrists:

In an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Carol

Tamminga, acknowledged: " the side effect outcomes are staggering in

their magnitude and extent and demonstrate the significant medication

burden for persons with schizophrenia.… "

See: Dr. Carol Tamminga, " Practical Treatment Information for

Schizophrenia " Editorial, AJP, April, 2006, vol. 163:563-565.

How can anyone justify the use of four-year old children as human

drug testing guinea pigs?

The experiments described by ABC News expose small children to drugs

so toxic they disrupt normal biological and mental function, damage

major organs, produce debilitating, chronic diseases such as

diabetes, leading to premature death?

According to its website, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, is the

largest of the Harvard Medical School teaching facilities, the

hospital. "

" the oldest provider of pediatric services in Boston, has provided

comprehensive care for children since 1821. It is consistently ranked

by U.S. News and World Report, Annual Guide to America's Best

Hospitals, and was ranked number 16 in the 2003 edition. Through its

growing network of community-based facilities and pediatricians, the

hospital's excellent care is conveniently accessible to families

throughout the region. "

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

If these experiments were approved by the FDA, and passed the

institutional review boards (IRBs) of Harvard and MassGeneral, what

does it say about the debasement of academic medicine?

Clearly the system for safeguarding the children's right to be free

from the risks of medical experiments that are not in their best

interest, is broken and must be replaced.

Join AHRP's efforts to stop the putting children in harm's way in

medical experiments.

Help AHRP --we need a hosting a website for a petition to stop

experimental exploitation of children.

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare@...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/tots_used_as_hu.html

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?

May 12, 2006 10:56 AM

ph Rhee Reports:

ABC News has learned that a Massachusetts hospital is currently

recruiting pre-schoolers to test the safety and effectiveness of a

powerful antipsychotic drug called Quetiapine.

The study, conducted by the Department of Pediatric

Psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is testing

subjects from four to six years of age with Bipolar Disorder. An

earlier Massachusetts General study of the antipsychotic drugs

Risperidone and Olanzapine recruited children as young as three years

old.

These antipsychotic drugs are only approved for use by adults and are

so toxic they carry a " black box warning. " The drugs have been found

to cause diabetes; a life-threatening nervous system problem called

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome; low blood pressure; and have also led

to higher death rates in the elderly. Despite these serious potential

side-effects, a patient recruitment video obtained by ABC News

contains no mention of any of these risks.

Vera Hassner Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection

said, " Antipsychotics were never approved for use in children whose

developing brains and central nervous system may be irreversibly

harmed. We believe that physicians who subject children to the toxic

effects of these drugs...are practicing outside medically accepted

standards. "

A previous clinical trial of Olanzapine was conducted by UCLA in 1998

on five children, aged 6 to 11. The authors of the study said

treatment was discontinued within the first six weeks " because of

adverse effects or lack of clinically significant therapeutic

response. "

Sharav also said it's questionable whether or not three or four year-

olds can be accurately diagnosed for Bipolar Disorder. According to a

1999 Surgeon General report, " The signs and symptoms of mental

disorders are often also the characteristics of normal development. "

The National Institute for Mental Health has concluded

that " diagnostic uncertainty...surrounds most manifestations of

psychopathology at such an early age. "

Neither the hospital nor the lead investigator for the trials, Dr.

ph Biederman, responded to our requests for a comment on the

trials.

Click here for information on the Massachusetts General clinical

trial.

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00181883?order=1

Click for FDA Information Sheet on antipsychotic drugs.

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/antipsychotics/default.htm

FAIR USE NOTICE: This may contain copyrighted (© ) material the use

of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright

owner. Such material is made available for educational purposes, to

advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral,

ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this

constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided

for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This

material is distributed without profit.

[Guest guest]

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?_ABC News

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)

Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/

FYI

ABC News reports that antipsychotic drugs are being tested on

toddlers at Harvard University affiliate hospital, Massachusetts

General Children's Hospital.

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

The drugs being tested on very young, defenseless children are the

most toxic, harm producing psychotropic prescription drugs marketed.

The indisputable evidence of these drugs' severe adverse effects in

adults with schizophrenia is now being acknowledged by leading

psychiatrists:

In an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Carol

Tamminga, acknowledged: " the side effect outcomes are staggering in

their magnitude and extent and demonstrate the significant medication

burden for persons with schizophrenia.… "

See: Dr. Carol Tamminga, " Practical Treatment Information for

Schizophrenia " Editorial, AJP, April, 2006, vol. 163:563-565.

How can anyone justify the use of four-year old children as human

drug testing guinea pigs?

The experiments described by ABC News expose small children to drugs

so toxic they disrupt normal biological and mental function, damage

major organs, produce debilitating, chronic diseases such as

diabetes, leading to premature death?

According to its website, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, is the

largest of the Harvard Medical School teaching facilities, the

hospital. "

" the oldest provider of pediatric services in Boston, has provided

comprehensive care for children since 1821. It is consistently ranked

by U.S. News and World Report, Annual Guide to America's Best

Hospitals, and was ranked number 16 in the 2003 edition. Through its

growing network of community-based facilities and pediatricians, the

hospital's excellent care is conveniently accessible to families

throughout the region. "

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

If these experiments were approved by the FDA, and passed the

institutional review boards (IRBs) of Harvard and MassGeneral, what

does it say about the debasement of academic medicine?

Clearly the system for safeguarding the children's right to be free

from the risks of medical experiments that are not in their best

interest, is broken and must be replaced.

Join AHRP's efforts to stop the putting children in harm's way in

medical experiments.

Help AHRP --we need a hosting a website for a petition to stop

experimental exploitation of children.

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare@...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/tots_used_as_hu.html

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?

May 12, 2006 10:56 AM

ph Rhee Reports:

ABC News has learned that a Massachusetts hospital is currently

recruiting pre-schoolers to test the safety and effectiveness of a

powerful antipsychotic drug called Quetiapine.

The study, conducted by the Department of Pediatric

Psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is testing

subjects from four to six years of age with Bipolar Disorder. An

earlier Massachusetts General study of the antipsychotic drugs

Risperidone and Olanzapine recruited children as young as three years

old.

These antipsychotic drugs are only approved for use by adults and are

so toxic they carry a " black box warning. " The drugs have been found

to cause diabetes; a life-threatening nervous system problem called

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome; low blood pressure; and have also led

to higher death rates in the elderly. Despite these serious potential

side-effects, a patient recruitment video obtained by ABC News

contains no mention of any of these risks.

Vera Hassner Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection

said, " Antipsychotics were never approved for use in children whose

developing brains and central nervous system may be irreversibly

harmed. We believe that physicians who subject children to the toxic

effects of these drugs...are practicing outside medically accepted

standards. "

A previous clinical trial of Olanzapine was conducted by UCLA in 1998

on five children, aged 6 to 11. The authors of the study said

treatment was discontinued within the first six weeks " because of

adverse effects or lack of clinically significant therapeutic

response. "

Sharav also said it's questionable whether or not three or four year-

olds can be accurately diagnosed for Bipolar Disorder. According to a

1999 Surgeon General report, " The signs and symptoms of mental

disorders are often also the characteristics of normal development. "

The National Institute for Mental Health has concluded

that " diagnostic uncertainty...surrounds most manifestations of

psychopathology at such an early age. "

Neither the hospital nor the lead investigator for the trials, Dr.

ph Biederman, responded to our requests for a comment on the

trials.

Click here for information on the Massachusetts General clinical

trial.

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00181883?order=1

Click for FDA Information Sheet on antipsychotic drugs.

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/antipsychotics/default.htm

FAIR USE NOTICE: This may contain copyrighted (© ) material the use

of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright

owner. Such material is made available for educational purposes, to

advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral,

ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this

constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided

for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This

material is distributed without profit.

[Guest guest]

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?_ABC News

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)

Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/

FYI

ABC News reports that antipsychotic drugs are being tested on

toddlers at Harvard University affiliate hospital, Massachusetts

General Children's Hospital.

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

The drugs being tested on very young, defenseless children are the

most toxic, harm producing psychotropic prescription drugs marketed.

The indisputable evidence of these drugs' severe adverse effects in

adults with schizophrenia is now being acknowledged by leading

psychiatrists:

In an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Carol

Tamminga, acknowledged: " the side effect outcomes are staggering in

their magnitude and extent and demonstrate the significant medication

burden for persons with schizophrenia.… "

See: Dr. Carol Tamminga, " Practical Treatment Information for

Schizophrenia " Editorial, AJP, April, 2006, vol. 163:563-565.

How can anyone justify the use of four-year old children as human

drug testing guinea pigs?

The experiments described by ABC News expose small children to drugs

so toxic they disrupt normal biological and mental function, damage

major organs, produce debilitating, chronic diseases such as

diabetes, leading to premature death?

According to its website, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, is the

largest of the Harvard Medical School teaching facilities, the

hospital. "

" the oldest provider of pediatric services in Boston, has provided

comprehensive care for children since 1821. It is consistently ranked

by U.S. News and World Report, Annual Guide to America's Best

Hospitals, and was ranked number 16 in the 2003 edition. Through its

growing network of community-based facilities and pediatricians, the

hospital's excellent care is conveniently accessible to families

throughout the region. "

http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/mghfc_aboutus.htm

If these experiments were approved by the FDA, and passed the

institutional review boards (IRBs) of Harvard and MassGeneral, what

does it say about the debasement of academic medicine?

Clearly the system for safeguarding the children's right to be free

from the risks of medical experiments that are not in their best

interest, is broken and must be replaced.

Join AHRP's efforts to stop the putting children in harm's way in

medical experiments.

Help AHRP --we need a hosting a website for a petition to stop

experimental exploitation of children.

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare@...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/tots_used_as_hu.html

Tots Used as Human Guinea Pigs?

May 12, 2006 10:56 AM

ph Rhee Reports:

ABC News has learned that a Massachusetts hospital is currently

recruiting pre-schoolers to test the safety and effectiveness of a

powerful antipsychotic drug called Quetiapine.

The study, conducted by the Department of Pediatric

Psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is testing

subjects from four to six years of age with Bipolar Disorder. An

earlier Massachusetts General study of the antipsychotic drugs

Risperidone and Olanzapine recruited children as young as three years

old.

These antipsychotic drugs are only approved for use by adults and are

so toxic they carry a " black box warning. " The drugs have been found

to cause diabetes; a life-threatening nervous system problem called

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome; low blood pressure; and have also led

to higher death rates in the elderly. Despite these serious potential

side-effects, a patient recruitment video obtained by ABC News

contains no mention of any of these risks.

Vera Hassner Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection

said, " Antipsychotics were never approved for use in children whose

developing brains and central nervous system may be irreversibly

harmed. We believe that physicians who subject children to the toxic

effects of these drugs...are practicing outside medically accepted

standards. "

A previous clinical trial of Olanzapine was conducted by UCLA in 1998

on five children, aged 6 to 11. The authors of the study said

treatment was discontinued within the first six weeks " because of

adverse effects or lack of clinically significant therapeutic

response. "

Sharav also said it's questionable whether or not three or four year-

olds can be accurately diagnosed for Bipolar Disorder. According to a

1999 Surgeon General report, " The signs and symptoms of mental

disorders are often also the characteristics of normal development. "

The National Institute for Mental Health has concluded

that " diagnostic uncertainty...surrounds most manifestations of

psychopathology at such an early age. "

Neither the hospital nor the lead investigator for the trials, Dr.

ph Biederman, responded to our requests for a comment on the

trials.

Click here for information on the Massachusetts General clinical

trial.

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00181883?order=1

Click for FDA Information Sheet on antipsychotic drugs.

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/antipsychotics/default.htm

FAIR USE NOTICE: This may contain copyrighted (© ) material the use

of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright

owner. Such material is made available for educational purposes, to

advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral,

ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this

constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided

for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This

material is distributed without profit.