December 26th, 2011
Since 2009, OMSJ has examined more than 100 criminal, civil and military cases related to testing, diagnosis and treatment of HIV and AIDS. In the majority of those cases, OMSJ found that clinicians who relied on high patient caseloads to generate revenue routinely use unreliable HIV tests to misdiagnose their patients. (more…)
Patient Advocate Exposed as Pharma Shill
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared the overdoses from opioid drugs like OxyContin an “epidemic”. And a growing group of experts doubts that they work for long-term pain. But the pills continue to have an influential champion in the American Pain Foundation, which describes itself (more…)
Scientists’ Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results
Two years ago, a group of Boston researchers published a study describing how they had destroyed cancer tumors by targeting a protein called STK33. Scientists at biotechnology firm Amgen Inc. quickly pounced on the idea and assigned two dozen researchers to try to repeat the experiment with a goal of turning the findings into a drug. (more…)
New Questions Raised About PSA Testing
Forty years after prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was identified and nearly 20 years after it became available for prostate-cancer screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently recommended against PSA-based screening. In the interim, untold millions of men have been (more…)
$433-million Smallpox Drug Deal Questioned
13 Nov | WASHINGTON - Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contra (more…)
How One Doc Forced Gov’t to Close a Public Database
1o Nov - An agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that maintains a discipline and medical-malpractice database reopened it for public access yesterday, two months after the agency had first taken the database offline. (more…)
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Sisters Convicted in HIV-Medicare Scam
4 Nov | MIAMI Fl. – A federal judge slapped two Miami sisters convicted of Medicare fraud with 14-year prison sentences, chastising them for exporting their HIV-clinic scam to Detroit. (more…)
Scandal Exposed in Mercury-Autism Study
SILVER SPRING, Md 25 Oct - The Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD) exposes communications between Centers for Disease Control (CDC) personnel and vaccine researchers revealing U.S. officials apparently colluded in covering-up the decline in Denmark’s autism rates following the removal of mercury from vaccines. (more…)
Gardasil Killing More U.S. Girls
Gardasil, the controversial drug that took the early Republican presidential debates by storm, is back in the news as newly unearthed documents reveal 26 additional deaths associated with the shot designed to help prevent young women from getting a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer. (more…)
Trying to Heal a System’s Flaws
Reporting from Atlanta— The cardiac intensive care unit at Egleston children’s hospital in Atlanta gleams and hums with a dazzling array of scientific wonders that breathe for tiny lungs and monitor every beat of an infant heart. But on a recent visit, Dr. Donald Berwick was especially pleased by something decidedly low-tech: a quiet zone where nurses can place medication orders without being interrupted, even during emergencies. (more…)
Gardasil Controversy Soars, Bachmann, Perry Drop
3 Oct – Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, two presidential candidates who sparred over the issue of Texas vaccinations, may be floundering in the polls, but the topic of Merck’s controversial Gardasil is heating up – with an Austrian physician who studied the drug saying (more…)
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