Vera Hassner Sharav

  • Another Doctor Charged with Pharma Heresy

    Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been a lightening rod for attacks by vaccine promoters ever since he published an article (Lancet, 1998) raising the possibility– though not claiming a finding of a causal link–between the onset of children’s chronic intestinal inflammation and pervasive developmental disorder following vaccination (more…)

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  • Eli Lilly Exec Returns to Harvard

    The Wall Street Journal reports that Dr. William Chin, Eli Lilly’s senior VP for “discovery and clinical research” is to assume “a newly created job” at Harvard Medical School.  So much for talk about academia distancing medical research from the influence of Big Pharma.  The revolving door between Harvard Medical School faculty and Eli Lilly executives is an example of sheer arrogance and a stunning disregard for public opinion. (more…)

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  • SSRI’s Pose Unnecessary Risk to Patients

    Twenty-two years after the US marketing of Prozac, which changed the marketing, prescribing and widespread consumption of psychoactive drugs–a meta-analysis of six large studies published in the Journal of the Medical Association (JAMA) confirms that industry’s blockbuster drugs, SSRI antidepressants were unable to outperform placebos (more…)

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