Though ChemistryWorld is not one of my usual sites, I give them credit for one fine summary of the current state of the European Medicines Agency Data Transparency story: EMA wrangles restrain trial data progress ChemistryWorld by Andy Extance 3 July 2014 Tempers are being tested as the pharmaceutical industry’s journey towards transparency on clinical […]
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. not Albert Einstein 1 Insel Looks to Transformation of Diagnostics, Therapeutics "From Psychiatry to Clinical Neuroscience" PsychiatricNews by Mark Moran June 17, 2014 NIMH Director Thomas Insel, M.D., says that more people are getting more treatment, but outcomes are not getting better, […]
The Black Box Warning added to antidepressant labeling in 2004 by the FDA created something of a cottage industry attempting to either discredit it or reverse it. Those efforts are well documented throughout this and many other blogs. And there have been multiple attempts to say that the net effect has been an increase in […]
Investigators Face Trial Amid GSK Sex Tape Revelations Pharmagossip by Jack Friday July 2, 2014 South China Morning Post’s Toh Han Shih reports that British/Chinese-American corporate investigator couple Peter Humphrey and Yu Yingzheng, who were arrested last summer during a bribery investigation into their clients GlaxoSmithKline, will stand trial in Shanghai on July 29th. Chinese prosecutors […]
Before now, J&J et al’s TMAP scheme to sell Atypical Antipsychotics to our government programs held the lead in pharmaceutical greed. But they only replaced a "just as good" generic with expensive in patent drugs. Roche jumped way out front with Tamiflu®, a drug essentially inert as a life-saver sold to governments by the barge […]
I thought we might be getting beyond these industry funded Clinical Trials of psychiatric medications being published in our peer reviewed journals, but they’re still there [though much less frequently]. This one is in the AJP published online last week ahead of print. It tests the effects of Seroquel XR® on patients with Borderline Personality […]
A year ago, we first began to hear about a GSK bribery scandal in China [an irreducible conflict…]. Pharmagossip has kept us up on the developments. Now this: How a secret sex tape plunged British drugs giant Glaxo into a £90million bribery probe Daily Mail By Hugo Gye 29 June 2014 A covert sex tape […]
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@ec.europa.eu Dear Madam/Sir, In recent weeks, the Commission has received numerous emails, addressed to Ms Testori Coggi, in which citizens voiced their concern regarding the draft policy of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the publication of clinical data. We appreciate the interest that this topic triggered. The Commission values transparency as an important […]
Earlier, I mentioned "Vanessa’s Law" currently proposed in Canada [doing the right thing… and missing link…]. This is a Canadian Religious Program, "Context," where the author of that proposed legislation is interviewed: