Dear Senator Grassley: The SaneVax Team read your October 22, 2010 letter to Dr. Harold E. Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with great interest. We would like to congratulate you on your efforts to examine the ethical questions raised by NCI employees accepting extensive travel sponsored by private companies. NCI is the […]
Time to end the worst practice in medicine
By William Campbell Douglass II, MD Dear Friend, Next time you run out of toilet paper, reach for the nearest medical journal. In one of the greatest scandals of modern medicine, Big Pharma is using ghostwriters and shady third-party companies to secretly buy its way into the pages of what are supposed to be respectable […]
Under Fire FDA's Top Cop Steps Down
By: Vera Hassner Sharav 30 November 2010 “The thought that someone at the GAO may have compromised the testing of a system unfortunately, brings the integrity of the entire report into question if it’s determined to be true.” Sen. Charles Grassley. On November 23, 2010, Terry Vermillion, Director of FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigation […]
