Horrific stories have emerged of the drugs trial on human guinea pigs which went disastrously wrong.
The girlfriend of one victim emerged from an intensive care unit where he is fighting for his life saying he had been transformed from a handsome young man into Elephant Man.
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Dangerous Prescription
Frontline, of Public Broadcasting System aired an investigative news report on Thursday that focused on the FDA's systemic failure to protect the public from hazardous drugs. FDA had approved at least 12 dangerous prescription drugs--the "dirty dozen"--that killed people before the FDA ordered them pulled from the market. The advice given by former FDA experts is: don't take a new drug until it's been on the market at least 2 to 5 years-- whoever takes a newly approved drug is an non-consenting guinea pig.
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/03/11/14.php
Eleven Patients Die in Eisai Drug Trial
Eleven patients have died while taking Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept during a clinical trial, Japan's Eisai Co., which makes the medicine, said on Thursday (3-16-06).-Reuters
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-03-16T155447Z_01_N1688881_RTRUKOC_0_US-EISAI-ARICEPT.xml&rpc=22
Preventing Pharmaceutical-Induced Nutritional Deficiencies
While pharmaceuticals have lifesaving benefits, many of these medications can have serious side effects, ranging from cardiac arrest to suicide. Millions of Americans suffer from an almost completely ignored epidemic of drug-induced nutrient depletion that can cause grave health problems. Perhaps 30% of pharmaceutical side effects are the direct result of these drug-induced nutrient deficiencies.-Le Magazine
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/mar2006_report_drugs_01.htm
Prescription: Suicide? - A Documentary Film about a 12 year old child prescribed Zoloft
Prescription: Suicide? is a documentary film about Candace Leigh Downing, a 12-year old girl who was anxious about certain school tests. A child psychiatrist prescribed the antidepressant, Zolfot, and soon after she committed suicide…
… 100,000 Americans are killed each year due to adverse drug reactions. There is no central database monitoring which drugs kill--the FDA does not even monitor the 1% (at most 10%) adverse drug effect reported to MedWatch…
If TeenScreen is adopted, and all school children will be screened for presumed mental problems, there will be thousands of children for whom psychotropic drugs--such as the one prescribed for 12-year old Candace Leigh Downing--will be given.
Full article at
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/10/15.php
Two additional deaths have been reported after women took the abortion pill known as RU-486 or Mifeprex, U.S. regulators said on Friday, 3-17-06…Four previously reported fatalities were linked to a bacterial infection that developed after the women took the abortion pill, which is sold by privately held Danco Laboratories. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-03-17T175726Z_01_WAT005095_RTRUKOC_0_US-ABORTION-PILL.xml&rpc=22