Dr. Paid For Approval of Psychiatric Drugs

[2manyfibers]

Here’s a couple of links to related stories on a well known professor of psychiatry at a medical university being paid “consulting” fees by drug companies for helping gain the approval of psychiatric drugs. By all appearances, he used his position to help drug companies gain approval for psychiatric drugs and lied about how much he was paid – that in itself indicates to me that the drugs were likely far more dangerous than they were touted to be and this doctor (and others) used his position to cover up the dangers.

This appears to me to be the tip of the iceberg – sadly, from all I’ve read, this kind of corruption and collusion between doctors and the drug industry has become the rule rather than the exception – and the patients are the ones who suffer for their greed. These articles discuss psychiatric drugs, but these corrupt practices appear apply across the board to every area of medicine these days.

Here’s the first link with a couple of brief excerpts:

Emory acknowledges past issues with professor, launches investigation | ajc.com

Emory University officials said Saturday that a prominent psychiatric researcher has been accused several times in recent years with not disclosing earnings from drug companies and not revealing potential conflicts of interest.

Congressional investigators have found that Nemeroff received $2.8 million in consulting fees from companies, some whose drugs he was evaluating, and failed to report a third of that amount to the university, according to a story this weekend in the New York Times. If true, the allegations represent a violation of federal research rules and university ethics guidelines.

According to Grassley’s letter, Nemeroff often did paid speeches for the drug company GlaxoSmithKline between 2000 and 2006; he was paid $960,000 by the company in that period but disclosed only about $35,000 to Emory. Also, from 2003 to the summer of 2008, Nemeroff was the chief investigator on a $3.9 million National Institutes of Health study on five Glaxo drugs for treatment of depression, the letter stated.

In 2006, he left his post as editor-in-chief of the national medical journal Neuropsychophamacology following an outcry over an article he wrote, giving a positive review to a medical implant manufactured by Houston-based Cyberonics. Nemeroff and seven of his co-authors did not disclose in the article that they worked as paid consultants and sat on an advisory board at the company.

Here’s a link to a related story that discusses a couple of other doctors and this obvious corruption (with a couple of excerpts):

Emory psychiatrist probed over $1.2M in drug fees | ajc.com

In one telling example, Nemeroff signed a letter dated July 15, 2004, promising Emory administrators that he would earn less than $10,000 a year from GlaxoSmithKline to comply with federal rules. But on that day, he was at the Four Seasons Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., earning $3,000 of what would become $170,000 in income that year from that company — 17 times the figure he had agreed on.

Grassley began his investigation in the spring by questioning Dr. Melissa P. DelBello of the University of Cincinnati after the New York Times reported her connections to drug makers. DelBello told university officials that she earned about $100,000 from 2005 to 2007 from eight drug makers, but AstraZeneca alone paid her $238,000 during the period, Grassley found.

Then in early June, the senator reported to Congress that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a renowned child psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, and a colleague, Dr. Timothy E. Wilens, had reported to university officials earning several hundred thousand dollars each in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007, when in fact they had earned at least $1.6 million each.

[Morgan]

This is no shock to me. For years I have noticed and taken note of some finely dressed business looking people coming and going from various physicians offices that I have visited. While in the waiting room I have seen them in MD's, DO's, OB/GYN's, Ophthamologists, and even in a hospital across the hall from where I was being prepped for a colonoscopy I could smell something wonderful. I asked what that fabulous smell was and the tech responded " Oh that is the catered meal sent in by the drug reps for the dr.'s." I've also inquired as to the identity on other occasions in waiting rooms etc and been told...drug rep, drug rep, drug rep.

Now if this were a judge or a politician receiving these "gifts" this would be considered bribery. But not with dr's who have and exceeding conflict of interest by accepting these gifts.

PHYSICIANS beware. We ARE watching you.

Morgan

[carla]

The medical establishment is a scam and the evidence is everywhere.
Look at vaccines they push on us. Never again will I allow anyone to vaccinate my kids.
After my neice was given the new cervical cancer vaccine in school I researched it and it has already killed 18 people and caused illness to thousands others.
Yet our NHS is paying four hundred pounds a person and it hasnt been tested.
I 'm a bad Mother because I refuse to get my kids vaccinated.
The UK media even suggest that outbreaks are caused by unvaccinated kids.
Unbeleivable .

carla xx