Stories posted in 2002
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Stories posted in 4th Qtr, 2002
12/22/2002
DA counsel’s rise embodies US shift
12/15/2002
Drug firms and doctors: the offers pour in
12/12/2002
Lawmakers blast Roche, FDA over Accutane
12/5/2002
Japan Links 81 Deaths to New Lung Cancer Drug
12/4/2002
Finding The Answer To Washington's Hottest Whodunit
When Doctors Go to Class, Industry Often Foots the Bill Lectures Tend to Feature Pills But Drug Firms Deny Influence
12/1/2002
Ex - Lilly Workers Claim Corporate Backing
11/27/2002
Big Government Moves to Suppress Evidence Linking Mercury Preservative in Vaccines to Autism
11/25/2002
SHOW: FOX ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN (22:40)
11/15/2002
Rider Aids Drugmakers Measure Would Block Suits Over Vaccines; FBI Powers Also Would Grow
11/14/2002
New Clinic helps to wean Scots children off prescription drugs
11/5/2002
Harris offered candid hints that 'something was wrong
10/31/2002
Drugging Our Children The Legal Way
10/29/2002
Documents Show Effort to Promote Unproven Drug
10/28/2002
Pfizer to Pay $49 Million in Fraud Case
10/27/2002
As kids get psychiatric drugs, some experts ask why
10/26/2002
Mass. group sues Paxil drugmaker
10/24/2002
THE SSRI CONFERENCE IN PHILADELPHIA
10/21/2002
Addiction fears rise about Xanax Experts concerned over extended use of anti-panic drug
10/20/2002
DARKER SIDE TO THE 9/11 ‘WONDER’ PILL
10/18/2002
Pfizer drug strategy probed States question marketing tactics for Neurontin
10/17/2002
The biggest drug dealer on campus
10/16/2002
GlaxoSmithKline Told to Recall Antidepressant Drug in Ireland
Paxil is Forever: doctor please, some more of these
10/15/2002
One of longest-pending Prozac suits is resolved
10/14/2002
Articles from Alternative Press
10/13/2002
Depression drug may be cleared for children
10/12/2002
Conflict of Interest Series
10/10/2002
THE CONTROVERSIAL SMALLPOX VACCINE
Judge reconsiders, says anti-depressant can be labeled non-addictive
10/9/2002
Drug Companies Push Japan To Change View of Depression
10/6/2002
Feds back drugmakers in suits like Columbine victim's
10/1/2002
Drug Industry Is Told to Stop Gifts to Doctors
FDA Demands to be the Final Authority
9/30/2002
Medical Research To Die For
8/28/2002
National expert blames side effects of depression medication
8/22/2002
FDA Faults Ruling On Paxil Ads
7/23/2002
Glaxo Raises White Flag, Settles Paxil Trial Appeal, and Pays Up
7/12/2002
Duke Warning: Zyprexa-Diabetes Link
5/7/2002
Antidepressant puts newborns at risk, study says
Stories posted in 3rd Qtr, 2002
9/23/2002
Dangerous Medicine: So what if the speedup at the FDA is putting poisons on pharmacy shelves? Congress doesn’t want to know.
9/8/2002
Antisuicidal Effect Of Psychotropics Remains Uncertain
9/2/2002
Special Report: Prescription Drugs May Trigger Killing
South Carolina Judges Seek to Ban Secret Settlements
9/1/2002
Doctors Consider Diagnosis for ‘Ill’ Relationships
8/26/2002
Drug firm warns of Lariam suicide reports
8/20/2002
Judge: Paxil ads can’t say it isn’t habit-forming
8/19/2002
The gene that wouldn’t sit still--Classroom fidgets and epic migrations may share a common genetic root
8/14/2002
BUSH’S BRO: MY SON WAS A VICTIM OF SCHOOL RX
8/10/2002
Policy and People
8/7/2002
I WAS TOLD TO DOPE MY KID
8/3/2002
Western medicine--a confidence trick driven by the drug industry?
8/2/2002
Corporate Greed Keeps Drug Prices High
7/30/2002
First, you market the disease... then you push the pills to treat it: the ugly truth about doctors, PR firms and drug companies
7/27/2002
New guidance issued on promoting integrity in scientific research
7/22/2002
Surge in drugs given to kids draws concern
7/15/2002
The Going Rate on Shrinks--Big Pharma and the buying of psychiatry
7/14/2002
In short drug tests, fatal flaws--A narrow focus on effectiveness is a prescription for harm
7/9/2002
Goodbye Hormone Replacement Therapy?--Investigators Now Recommend Many Women Stop Use of Once-Valued Drugs
7/8/2002
Study--Antidepressant barely better than placebo
6/27/2002
Antidepressant Seroxat tops table of drug withdrawal symptoms
6/16/2002
Call for probe into anti-depressant
6/3/2002
Money and Madness
Stories posted in 1st & 2nd Qtr, 2002
5/29/2002
Bitter Medicine--Pills, Profit and the Public Health
Trials of Pediatric DrugsSeek More Young Subjects
5/28/2002
Week In Week Out--Mind Games
5/26/2002
Industry Role in Medical Meeting Decried
5/24/2002
Study Supports Psychotherapy In the Treatment of Depression
5/23/2002
Scientist stands by views of drugs after settling lawsuit with U of T
Bill to Boost Industry Fees That Fund FDA
5/22/2002
FDA Report Faults Diet Drug Maker
5/15/2002
Suit Says Company Promoted Drug in Exam Rooms
5/14/2002
Common drug can kill diabetics
5/8/2002
Dr. Dunner The Friendly Ghostwriter
Depressed? Try taking a sugar pill as remedy
5/1/2002
Study--New Drugs Have Side Effects
4/30/2002
The Lilly Suicides--A Peculiar and Troubling Case
4/29/2002
Backlash Rises Against Flashy Ads For Prescription Pharmaceuticals
4/28/2002
The chemistry of happiness
4/26/2002
I TOOK ZYBAN TO GET ME OFF NICOTINE - NOW MY WHOLE LIFE IS IN RUINS
4/22/2002
The Ongoing Drug Industry Con-Job
4/20/2002
Placebo trials and tribulations
4/12/2002
Direct drug ads cause healthy people to turn to pills
4/10/2002
Sugar Pill Rivals Zoloft
Depression Drug Can Damage Liver Damage
4/7/2002
Judges’ Private Retreats Draw Fire
4/6/2002
JUST HOW TAINTED HAS MEDICINE BECOME?
4/3/2002
Prescribing Untested Drugs to Children
4/2/2002
Drugs body to target reticent companies
3/26/2002
Scientists find Prozac ‘link’ to brain tumors
3/20/2002
Petition Asks for Removal of Diet Drug From Market
3/18/2002
Favor of the Month--Did the White House give the drug industry veto power over FDA appointments?
3/14/2002
Whistle-Blower Says Marketers Broke the Rules to Push a Drug
3/13/2002
3/11/2002
The rebranding of a disease
3/10/2002
Is Meridia Another Fen-Phen?
3/6/2002
Deal to Boost Drug Approval, Oversight
2/27/2002
Drug ads cause healthy people to turn to pills
2/19/2002
FDA headache--balancing safety and drug approval
2/16/2002
INSANE PSYCHIATRY--A Profession Run Amok
2/11/2002
Regulating the Regulators--Who Is Protecting the Public Health?
2/8/2002
Inside the Happiness Business
2/7/2002
Is corporate funding steering research institutions off track?
Scientists Call on Journals to Disclose Authors' Conflicts of Interest
2/6/2002
Study Says Clinical Guides Often Hide Ties of Doctors
2/4/2002
Parental Report--Impact of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity May Be Underestimated
PFIZER GETS A PUBLIC DRESSING DOWN OVER PROMOTING UNLICENSED DRUGS
1/25/2002
17 Individuals File First (non-class action) Lawsuit Seeking Damages against SMITHKLINE BEECHAM for Severe Withdrawal Reactions from the Antidepressant, Paxil
1/23/2002
Drug firm issues addiction warning
1/21/2002
Adverse drug reactions plague elderly
1/19/2002
Drug Firms Still Lavish Pricey Gifts On Doctors
1/14/2002
Supreme Court Rejects Lilly's Prozac Patent Appeal
Drug Pitches Resonate With Edgy Public
1/7/2002
In The Drug Companies We Trust?
