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  • Overmedication in Nursing Homes Troubling

    10 May|ProPublica - Nursing homes are unnecessarily administering powerful antipsychotic drugs to many elderly residents, including residents with dementia, according to a new report by the Health and Human Services inspector general. (more…)

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  • Financial Ties Bind Medical Societies to Drug Makers

    SAN FRANCISCO — From the time they arrived to the moment they laid their heads on hotel pillows, the thousands of cardiologists attending this week’s Heart Rhythm Society conference have been bombarded with pitches for drugs and medical devices.  At night, a drug (more…)

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  • SCOTUS: Statistical Significance not Relevant in Drug Lawsuits

    25 Mar AHRP - In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that investors have a right to sue a company for its failure to disclose reports of adverse drug effects to shareholders – even if those reports do not rise to the level of “statistical significance.” (more…)

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  • Inside Psychiatry’s Battle to Define Mental Illness

    AHRP - The authoritative expert who chaired the DSM-IV revision has become a formidable critic whose publicly expressed views about psychiatry’s diagnostic assessments and prescribed treatments–mostly chemical interventions–validate the criticism expressed by the Alliance for Human Research Protection for more than a dozen years. (more…)

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  • BMJ and Lancet Wedded to Merck CME Partnership

    14 Feb AHRP - Why did the BMJ fail to disclose its partnership agreement with Merck, major vaccine manufacturer–13 vaccines, including the controversial MMR vaccine? (more…)

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  • Merck’s Medical Media Empire

    14 Feb - Today the world is so big and the miasma of information about it so opaque that even experts have to be constantly in touch 24/7, as they say. Take your eye of the ball for a second and you might regret it for a life-time. Some information, however, slips through the fog almost unnoticed; (more…)

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  • Dollars for Docs Adds Payouts from HIV Drug Maker

    7 Feb | ProPublica - A firm that specializes in HIV medications has become the eighth pharmaceutical company to disclose the payments it has made to U.S. health professionals for speaking and consulting. (more…)

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  • Celia Farber Interviews Prof. Marco Ruggiero

    25 Jan – To get an idea of the current state of scientific integrity in the United States today, Celia Farber’s conversation with scientist Marco Ruggiero MD, PhD may be one of the most illuminating interviews about virology, HIV, AIDS, scientific corruption and (more…)

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  • Elias Tembenis, Another Vaccine-Injury Case

    20 Jan | AHRP - CBS News reports about “yet another vaccine injury case you probably won’t hear much about… the tragic death of little Elias Tembenis.”   According to court and medical records, Elias was born on Aug. 23, 2000 and appeared healthy until (more…)

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  • Many Health Advocates Don’t Disclose Pharma Payola

    13 Jan | ProPublica - We’ve reported extensively on the ties between pharmaceutical companies and the physicians they fund to speak, consult and do research. But doctors aren’t the only ones taking money from drug companies—and they’re not the only stakeholders in the (more…)

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