Today in The Nation: Looser Rules for Big Pharma

                   
thenation.com     May 20, 2008            

FDA Puts Medical Test Subjects in Danger Sonia Shah: As Big Pharma increasingly turns to the Third World to test its products, this lush film will spark outrage, but glosses over the constant vigilance necessary to police drug trials. Unlike for domestic trials, the FDA does not require advance... [read full story]                

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FDA Scraps Helsinki Declaration on Protecting Human Research Subjects

ahrp.blogspot.com     May 17, 2008          

Merril Goozner head of Integrity in Science reports (below) that "FDA Scraps Helsinki Declaration on Protecting Human Subjects."In so doing, the FDA has taken a quantum leap down the slippery slope toward uncivilized medical experimentation.The agency is lending the US government seal of approval...                

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The FDA scale-up: good for big pharma or not?

genengnews.com     May 19, 2008          

by Michael Koeris Wednesday, May 07, 2008 Fact: the FDA relies on user fees since the 1990s with the goal of speeding up drug approvals, meaning it is severely underfunded by the federal government and has not been able to fulfill it's mission based on that alone... NOW the FDA wants to fill more...                

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