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Docs Who Praised Prodisc Revealed To Have Financial Ties To Product
Several of the doctors who were involved in clinical research trials of a new back injury treatment, Prodisc, were also early investors in the product and had a financial incentive to see it succeed, reports the New York Times. This may have led to its success as a treatment being overstated. One doctor who participated in the FDA study but failed to disclose his investor status explained, ""There were a lot of people who invested, so my small number was not a significant number."More »
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Former VP Admits "Enzyte Male Enhancement" Ads Are Complete Fiction
If your BS detector doesn't already go off when you watch commercials for Enzyte "Natural Male Enhancement," then listen to what a former vice president of the company that manufactured the product had to say about it:James Teegarden Jr., the former vice president of operations at Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, explained Tuesday in U.S. District Court how he and others at the company made up much of the content that appeared in Enzyte ads.More »
fraud
Jury Selection For Enzyte Trial Started Today
Jury selection began today for the federal trial against the man, his mom, and the business associates responsible for the "male enhancement" supplement Enzyte, reports WKRC in Cincinnaaa-ti. The charges against Steve Warshak and his Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals company include "committing wire and mail fraud, money laundering, and misbranding." No mention of creating what's possibly the world's most irritating TV ad, but we guess that crime is so great that it's being left for hell to sort out. More »
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Sprint's Special Low Price For One Month Of Mobile Broadband: $14,062.27
worst company in america
RIAA Defendant: Best Buy Replaced My Hard Drive During Warranty Repair
The RIAA defendant who lost her jury trial, Jammie Thomas, is telling her side of the story on p2pnet. Of particular interest: She claims that Best Buy made the decision to replace her hard drive, under the terms of her extended warranty, 6 months before she was served with the RIAA's subpoena. More »
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Participating In A Clinical Study? You're On Your Own
The FDA's own parent department, the Department of Health and Human Services, just issued a report that says the FDA "does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials," according to the New York Times. The FDA has 200 inspectors, some of whom are part-time, to monitor 350,000 testing sites—and even when they reported "serious problems," their findings were downgraded 68% of the time by higher-ups in Washington. More »
lawsuits
Best Buy Attorney Admits To Falsifying Emails In Racketeering Case
The racketeering case against Best Buy and Microsoft has taken an ugly turn. An attorney for Best Buy has admitted to altering emails that were to be used as evidence in the case. If you're new to this class action lawsuit, Microsoft is accused of paying Best Buy to collect and use customer's credit card information without their permission, signing them up for "free trials" of MSN that they didn't want and or weren't aware existed. When the free trial period was up, MSN began to bill them without their knowledge or consent. A former Best Buy employee wrote in to confess to pulling this sort of scheme on customers, if you're looking for more detail on how it all worked. More »
risks
Nokia, Cingular to Try Mastercard Test in NYC
Good news for those of you who don't fear ID theft. Nokia, Cingular, Mastercard and Citi are testing some crap that lets you pay for things with a cell phone. The phones will use the "Mastercard Pay Pass" system that's already installed in some stores. If you live in NYC and are accepted into the trial, you get a free phone. You need to be a Citi account holder and a Cingular user. Let us know how you like it and if your ID gets stolen. Good luck. —MEGHANN MARCO More »
drugs
UPDATE: Parexel Destroys Immune Systems, Avoids Liability
You may recall the test subjects of drug trial TGN1412 who were left seriously maimed moments after taking the experimental drug. More »
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Clinical Drug Trials, Bought And Paid For
What a shock: when a major pharmaceutical company sponsors a study comparing the effectiveness of its product over its competitors, they aren't paying to be trumped. They're stacking the deck. More »
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TGN1412 Trial Like "Russian Roulette"
Do you see the man to the right? The one who looks like the evilest German scientist to ever stumble in blood-smeared scrubs out of a Nazi laboratory? Gaze carefully upon the ominous shadowing falling upon his cadaverous features, the inhuman leer. Yes, readers, you are looking upon the horrible visage of none other than Dr. Thomas Hanke, Chief Scientific Officer of TeGenero, whose drug TGN1412 had six men in trials tearing at their skin and screaming. More »
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