pbs on medical ethics: Subject to approval: An investigation into clinical drug trials abroad: science or $cience

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* 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-investi\

gation-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.

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see also:

*Confidential Expert Witness Report Documents Psychiatrists' Corrupt

Practices*

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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....

1. The drugs your doctor prescribes may kill you

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ou/>

*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-c\

orrupt-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/