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...Oliver North $15,202,896 (R-VA...
Cummings signed, was formally diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and says he spent the next five years in an experiment with a powerful antipsychotic drug. He suffered bad side effects: partial blindness, impotence, constant migraines. He says the researchers at the VA never allowed him to see an eye doctor and wouldn't let him change drugs. Only in 1987, after complaining for years, did Cummings finally manage to get out of the experiment and see other doctors. "My vision came back but not as good as I expected," he says. The VA last week said a "cursory glance...
Most of the country's 2.3 million VA patients are poor or mentally ill. And over the decades, many have signed up for experiments after doctors suggested that it was the only way they could receive meaningful help. Now, however, those methods of obtaining recruits for psychiatric experiments are undergoing a radical change, one that may transform the way schizophrenia is studied in years to come. This summer the National Institutes of Health rebuked the University of California, Los Angeles for serious "deficiencies" in setting up schizophrenia experiments that UCLA runs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West...
...different UCLA-VA experiments, all of which are federally funded and housed in the West Los Angeles center, are under investigation. In one, "Management Risk for Relapse in Schizophrenia," veterans were placed on lower than usual dosages of antipsychotic drugs. All lived away from hospital supervision and were said to be monitored weekly. However, the experiment was envisioned to follow patients with "continuing psychotic symptoms" and especially sought out those in "relative remission" with "a potential for demonstrating a relapse." In a letter to UCLA in April, the NIH's Office for Protection from Research Risk demanded verification that human...
...they need Michael Ovitz -- to get into Hollywood," says TIME senior writerPhilip Elmer-DeWitt. Eventually, the companies plan to offer music videos, electronic games, personalized news and interactive advertising. A new company is expected to open media offices in New York and Los Angeles and technology arms in Reston, Va. and the San Francisco area...