Bloomberg - [Special Report] Big Pharma's Shameful Secret

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[sSRI-Research] Bloomberg - [special Report] Big Pharma's

Shameful Secret

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)

Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability

www.ahrp.org

 

FYI

 

A six part Special Report by Bloomberg News reveals that " Every

year, drug companies spend $14 billion to test experimental substances

on humans. Across the U.S., the centers that do the testing--and the

regulators who watch them--allow scores of human test subjects to be

injured or killed. "

 

Big Pharma's Shameful Secret-- http://www.bloomberg.com/specialreport/

provides corroborating evidence to support our consistent criticism

over the years about corrupt clinical trial practices and a

dysfunctional system that protects itself while sacrificing both the

integrity of research findings and the safety of human

subjects--whether they are patients or healthy

volunteers. See, for example, " dirty dozen " corrupt research review

practices: http://www.ahrp.org/testimonypresentations/armymeddept.php

 

The Bloomberg Special Report: is a massive indictment of the

pharmaceutical industry and its corrupt practices which would not be

possible without the complicity of the stakeholders in government and

academia. This report is an indictment of those who profit from the

exploitation of desperate, poor, and disenfranchised

people--immigrants, children, homeless people, and others who are used

and abused as guinea pigs.

 

 

 

Bloomberg News Special Report

 

 

 

FDA Needs to Do More to Oversee Experimental Drug Trials, Grassley

Says Participants in tests of experimental drugs are being put in

jeopardy and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must do more to

oversee these trials, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles

Grassley said.

 

Pharmaceutical Industry's Human Testing Masks Death, Injury, Compliant

FDA Oscar Cabanerio has been waiting in an experimental drug testing

center in Miami since 7:30 a.m. The 41- year-old undocumented

immigrant says he's desperate for cash to send his wife and four

children in Venezuela. Listen

 

Vietnam War Hero's Death at Houston Clinic Follows Years of FDA

Neglect Garry Polsgrove received two Purple Hearts for his service as

a Marine in Vietnam. Three decades after that war ended, Polsgrove,

55, was homeless and unemployed. Listen

 

Infants in Delaware Die After Experimental Surgery Without Parent

Consent Hours before 5-month-old Michael Daddio underwent surgery for

a congenital heart defect in November 2001, his parents, Robert and

Tracie, got some unexpected news. Listen

 

Doctor Who Died in Pennsylvania Test Was Betrayed by a System He

Trusted Scott Scheer wasn't worried about side effects when he agreed

to enroll in a federally funded test of different combinations of

previously approved blood pressure medications in 1997. Listen

 

Miami Testing Center Lures Poor Immigrants to Toil as Human Guinea

Pigs Roberto Alvarez has just finished eight nights of being confined

in the largest center for clinical drug trials in North America, and

he's happy to get out. Listen