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 To truly protect consumers, the final bill must require accurate, public drug trial results, and it must not interfere in any way with the right of patients to hold drug companies accountable in court when they are harmed by unsafe medications," Vaughan said.
Should the public be informed?
Now what about the question of whether the public should have access to such a database of clinical trial results? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 AIDS drug trials, but says that the last trial took place in 2001 and thus the trials are not continuing, as BBC reporter Jamie Doran claims. The ACS gives the extent and statistics of the experimental drug trials, based on its own records, and contracts the Vera Institute of Justice to conduct "an independent review of ACS policy and practice regarding the enrollment of HIV-positive children in foster care in clinical drug trials during the late 1980s and 1990s" (New York City ACS). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The eight patients were all part of a clinical drug trial run by an American drug company (Parexel). The drug, TGN1412, was hoped to be tested and approved as a treatment for arthritis, leukemia and multiple sclerosis. I'm not sure that the results experienced by these eight men would dissuade an FDA decision panel from recommending approval for the drug, but it's possible. Or maybe it will simply be approved with a black box warning.
Drug companies around the world, of course, are now concerned they won't be able to sign up more human guinea pigs for their own experimental drug trials. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Now what about the question of whether the public should have access to such a database of clinical trial results? Once again, it comes down to a fundamental principle of full disclosure: If drug companies want consumers to swallow their pills, shouldn't consumers be able to independently check the safety of those pills?
Currently, drug companies prefer that patients know nothing about the safety of their medications. All safety information is currently filtered through the FDA -- a highly corrupt (in fact, criminal! |
| The core question: Should clinical trial results be made public?
Of course they should. No reasonable person would argue otherwise (unless, of course, he was on the Big Pharma payroll or making money from today's pharmaceutical racket). Drug companies should no longer be allowed to operate in secret. Doctors, for one, need to have access to this information so they can make informed decisions on the safety of pharmaceuticals rather than just relying on some sexy young drug rep who buys them lunch and showers them with gifts. |
| The White House, it now seems, does not want the public to learn the truth about drug trial results.
The real reason the White House opposes this legislation, in my opinion, is that the White House is far too cozy with drug companies. Big Pharma maintains strong ties with the Bush Administration and helped elect virtually every Republican currently in office. In return, the Bush Administration has worked to pump up the profits of drug companies at every opportunity: His administration made it illegal for the U.S. |
| REPPED: The White House is taking steps to kill the FDA reform legislation recently passed in the House of Representatives that would require drug companies to publicly post clinical trial results so that doctors, researchers and the public could review them. According to a report in Inside Health Policy, the White House sent congressional staff an "unofficial statement of administration policy" that opposes this provision in the House bill. |
| It's a serious threat to their information monopoly that currently allows them to sweep negative clinical trial results under the rug.
Remember this: Big Pharma, the White House and the FDA all want you to remain ignorant about the dangers of drugs. The truth can never be allowed to be told, because the truth of the matter is simply too shocking for most Americans to comprehend.
And what is this truth, you ask? It's simple: The pharmaceutical industry is a criminal organization engaged in crimes against humanity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Nearly every clinical trial published today is already rigged to deliver results that favor drug companies, and it is a well known fact in the drug testing industry that individuals and companies who don't deliver favorable results quickly end up jobless or blackballed from the industry. Thus, there's a huge flaw in this idea that publicly publishing clinical trial results will instantly make drug companies honest. The science is dishonest in the first place, and clinical trials are rigged from the start to produce favorable results while minimizing the emergence of dangerous side effects. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 Once you have finished the first trial, move on to the next.
Trial 1
Recall 1 car-stripe
1. garage wasp-tree
2. snake snake-rainbow
3. circle garage-magazine
4. daisy circle-stairs
5. giraffe rabbit-popcorn
6. car daisy-box
7. wasp giraffe-mirror
8. rabbit
Trial 2 circle-stairs giraffe-mirror wasp-tree car-stripe snake-rainbow garage-magazine rabbit-popcorn daisy-box
Recall 2
1. giraffe
2. wasp
3. snake
4. daisy
5. circle
6. rabbit
7. garage
8. car
Trial 3 daisy-box rabbit-popcorn circle-stairs snake-rainbow giraffe-mirror wasp-tree garage-magazine car-stripe
Recall 3
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Ann N. Martin
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 A typical feeding trial uses eight dogs over one year of age. All the dogs must be of normal weight and health. Prior to the start of the trial all dogs must pass a physical examination. Their general health, body, and coat are evaluated. At the end of the trial four blood values are measured and recorded. They include hemoglobin, packed cell volume, serum alkaline phosphates, and serum albumin.
For six months the dogs are only fed the food being tested. In order for the dogs to finish the test, they must not lose more than 15 percent of their body weight. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Although no similar prosecution of industrial murder by poisoning had occurred in the United States, indictments were brought and the case did go to trial. Yet even this set of seemingly definitive actions was eroded over time. Despite an initial conviction, the verdict was later overturned on appeal. Also, one of the key defendants "relocated" to Utah and was never even brought to trial, since that state would not agree to extradition. The OSHA fines, even though they were modest to begin with, were reduced further after negotiations with the owners of Film Recovery Systems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Not coincidentally, the multiple organ failure suffered by the victims in this particular drug trial is not uncommon to see from the long-term use of FDA-approved drugs being widely prescribed today. People aren't falling over screaming from most drugs, but they are experiencing long-term liver damage, kidney damage, and brain damage due to the toxicity of common drugs prescribed to treat arthritis, depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other conditions. |
Eric R. Braverman
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| If no assistant is available, read these words to yourself aloud, and then cover the pairs in the trial column with a sheet of paper and fill in the blanks at right as best as you can.
This test consists of four trials to recall the eight pairs in different orders. Once you have finished the first trial, move on to the next.
Trial 1
Recall 1 car-stripe
1. garage wasp-tree
2. snake snake-rainbow
3. circle garage-magazine
4. daisy circle-stairs
5. giraffe rabbit-popcorn
6. car daisy-box
7. wasp giraffe-mirror
8. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 These types of biochemical variations have a genetic basis, and one needs large numbers of individuals so that the full range of genetic variability is included in the trial. In the United States a long series of clinical trials (essentially bioassays on humans) are required before a drug is approved. (Human clinical trials occur only after many tests in animals.) Even so, in recent years several drugs have been pulled from the market because of problems discovered after a successful clinical trial. Fen-Phen is widely known example. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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The horrifying truth about conventional medicine
Far beyond this particular drug trial, the truth about conventional medicine is simply this:
Most drugs don't work on most people (they don't produce the desired biochemical effects).
Most drugs damage vital organs when taken for more than a few days.
Health authorities like the FDA do not protect the people; they protect drug company profits.
Pharmaceutical-based medicine is, in fact, a cruel (and expensive) hoax being perpetrated on people all over the world. Its power centers are the United States and the U.K. |
Ann N. Martin
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| At the end of the trial four blood values are measured and recorded. They include hemoglobin, packed cell volume, serum alkaline phosphates, and serum albumin.
For six months the dogs are only fed the food being tested. In order for the dogs to finish the test, they must not lose more than 15 percent of their body weight. In addition, in order for the test to be valid, according to AAFCO standards, six of the eight dogs starting the feeding trial must finish the test and the dogs cannot lose more than 15 percent of their starting body weight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Both clinical trial and pharmacovigilance data point to possible links between these drugs and violent behaviours. The legal cases outlined returned a variety of verdicts that may in part have stemmed from different judicial processes. Many jurisdictions appear not to have considered the possibility that a prescription drug may induce violence.
The association of antidepressant treatment with aggression and violence reported here calls for more clinical trial and epidemiological data to be made available and for good clinical descriptions of the adverse outcomes of treatment. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Prior to the start of the trial all dogs must pass a physical examination. Their general health, body, and coat are evaluated. At the end of the trial four blood values are measured and recorded. They include hemoglobin, packed cell volume, serum alkaline phosphates, and serum albumin.
For six months the dogs are only fed the food being tested. In order for the dogs to finish the test, they must not lose more than 15 percent of their body weight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania inject 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger with an experimental gene therapy as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial. He dies four days later and his father suspects that he was not fully informed of the experiment's risk (Goliszek)
During a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of Propulsid for infant acid reflux, nine-month-old Gage Stevens dies at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh (Sharav).
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The U.S. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Here is the typical path a drug travels: After three years of pre-clinical testing, experimental drugs enter a three-stage clinical trial process with human subjects. Approximately five in every 5,000 compounds that enter the preclinical process proceed to clinical trials.
Phase 1 includes the initial introduction of an experimental drug into humans. The total number of subjects included in Phase 1 studies varies with the drug, but it usually ranges from 20 to 80 people. This stage takes a year. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He goes on to explain how Eli Lilly was engaged in widespread scientific fraud in the cherry picking of individuals for drug trial results. Basically, if anyone in the drug trial began to show suicidal behavior, they were "excused" from the trial and removed from the outcome data. None of this is any surprise to readers of this website, of course. I went public with accusations about the suicide risk of of antidepressant drugs in 1999. At that time it was widely ridiculed and called a "conspiracy theory." Now, once again, it is emerging as scientific fact. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Clinical drug trial researchers: These so-called scientists pretend to run honest, objective clinical trials, yet in reality they know that if they don't produce the results that please their sponsors (usually drug companies), they'll be blacklisted from the industry. So they pretend to conduct real science and thus protect their own careers. Amazing, isn't it, how drug trials almost always produce results that support their sponsors?
Mainstream media: The press pretends to write honest, objective, well-researched stories on health issues. |
Ann N. Martin
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| In addition, in order for the test to be valid, according to AAFCO standards, six of the eight dogs starting the feeding trial must finish the test and the dogs cannot lose more than 15 percent of their starting body weight. That is the complete criteria for AAFCO feeding trials. (Some pet food companies also conduct theit own research or have an independent company test their foods. Such testing is discussed later in this chapter. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We review available clinical trial data on paroxetine and sertraline and pharmacovigilance studies of paroxetine and fluoxetine, and outline a series of medico-legal cases involving antidepressants and violence.
Both clinical trial and pharmacovigilance data point to possible links between these drugs and violent behaviours. The legal cases outlined returned a variety of verdicts that may in part have stemmed from different judicial processes. Many jurisdictions appear not to have considered the possibility that a prescription drug may induce violence. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| If you are tentative and unsure, use the trial period. From the club's standpoint, a trial is not the optimal solution since they know that the more you think about joining, the more reasons you will come up with not to join. It is a valid concern for clubs since they do not make money until you enroll. No club has come up with a way to make money on guests who want to think about it.
The Information Call
\x)u would think that the best way to get information about a club would be to call and ask. Don't count on it. In the club industry, this is called a telephone inquiry or a T.I. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Sileni and Maenads primitive forest sanctuaries of trial and initiation. The doctor is the modern master of the mythological realm, the knower of all the secret ways and words of potency. His role is precisely that of the Wise Old Man of the myths and fairy tales whose words assist the hero through the trials and terrors of the weird adventure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Upon hearing about this utterly non-scientific alteration of the trial goals, the medical community expressed outrage. Big Pharma critics leapt at the opportunity to point out how drug-company-funded clinical trials are little more than junk science designed to distort findings and produce the results desired by the study sponsor. Even Congress got in on the act, announcing an investigation of Merck for its apparent attempt to commit scientific fraud with Vytorin study results.
By the way, the FDA doesn't require medical studies to be non-fraudulent. |
| In June, 2002, Merck and Shering-Plough began a cholesterol study called "ENHANCE" to test the effectiveness of their blockbuster drug Vytorin ($3 billion in sales so far). The trial concluded in 2006, and the final results are still not available. Why? Because the companies are sitting on the data, trying to figure out how to manipulate the results enough to make them look good!
The trial was attempting to measure the reduction of arterial plaque in the carotid arteries, and this reduction was measured by a high-tech ultrasound imaging technique called intravascular ultrasound. |
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| But this new agreement by the House and Senate will, it is claimed, require drug companies to start publishing these clinical trial results online.
Of course, all this doesn't mean that drug companies won't find some new way to game the system, deceive consumers and block meaningful FDA reform. Nearly every clinical trial published today is already rigged to deliver results that favor drug companies, and it is a well known fact in the drug testing industry that individuals and companies who don't deliver favorable results quickly end up jobless or blackballed from the industry. |
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