Clinical Trials of Drugs can cause serious injury and death without compensation to the human guinea pigs and their families

New drugs come at a price: a very great price of suffering to poor people you do not know or even know about. Read what Dr Mercola has to say about this in his new article today.

 

And read what Carolyn Thomas wrote in 2009 - that it is "No longer possible to believe much of clinical research published”

 

So all of that suffering is wasted anyway. - Read about it. Think about it. Do something about it.

Stem Cell Research Fraud

Ophthalmologist Peter Francis, a former 'rising star' in the medical research field in the UK, has resigned from Oregon Health and Science University's Casey Eye Institute, after "applying for two grants on the basis of fraudulent results from stem cell trials he had not carried out, the US authorities have ruled." See today's Guardian article.

Medical Research Fraud? Cancer Research Fraud?

Want to know more about Medical Research Fraud? Cancer Research Fraud? I suggest you check out this article by Dr Mercola.

Fraudulent drug research involving intravenous fluid management using colloids may have compromised surgery outcomes of millions of patients

The Telegraph reports that fraudulent drug research involving intravenous fluid management using colloids may have compromised surgery outcomes of millions of patients.

Many of my blogposts are about fraud involving drug research. Too many members of the medical profession have what is called 'a conflict of interest'. Put simply, this means that they are receiving payments/bribes/inducements of some kind from a pharmaceutical drug company in order to lie about the efficacy and/or safety of the company's drug/s in order to swell the profits of the company. When criminal court cases result from this fraud and from the massive harm and suffering caused to patients, the usual sanction is a huge fine on the company, but huge though the fines are, they pale into insignificance in comparision to the profits made by the fraudulent research claims, and are regarded as reasonable costs by the drug companies. This is why the fraud continues to flourish and why it is unwise to trust drug research findings.

It is vanishingly rare for any individuals involved in the criminality to suffer punishment personally. But in this case, the anaesthetist involved, Joachim Boldt, is at the centre of a criminal investigation. Let us hope that if found guilty he will receive a punishment of imprisonment appropriate to the suffering and worry his greed has caused to millions of patients, and that it will deter other members of the medical profession from being tempted into research fraud.

Doctor accused of faking studies

A widely known Massachusetts anesthesiologist whose research has influenced how doctors treat surgery patients for pain has been accused of fabricating results in at least 21 published studies and, in some cases, even inventing patients. Physicians and journal editors said the allegations, if proven, could constitute one of the largest and longest-running cases ever of medical research fraud.
Read article in The Boston Globe (USA)