The Associated Press reports that a just released study that found that a staggering, two and half million children in the U.S. are being prescribed antipsychotics annually–that’s 40 out of every 1,000 children.
Psychiatric Adverse Events Associated with Drug Treatment of ADHD: Review of Postmarketing Safety Data
The Phase I trial–the first in humans–was set up by US drug research company Parexel International Corp on behalf of German pharmaceutical company TeGenero.
"Biological psychiatrists have looked very closely for a serotonin imbalance or dysfunction in patients with depression or obsessive compulsive disorder and, to date, it has been elusive," says Dr. Wayne Goodman, Chair of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee.
In a blistering letter addressed to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Senator Grassley calls upon Michael Leavitt to give “immediate attention” to the serious issues raised by a Northfield Laboratory, non-consensual artificial blood experiment.
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports (below): "TeenScreen, developed by a Columbia University professor, has come under intense criticism nationally."
OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS and the corruption of medical science, By Celia Farber in the current issue of Harper’s magazine.
The Boston Globe reports (below): “More than 50 years after psychiatrists began widely dispensing drugs to treat mental illness, the profession is coming face to face with a humbling reality: Its treatments often fail, leaving millions of patients [ ] to suffer while doctors search for something that works.”
Dr. Peter Breggin’s sealed expert medical report in a Paxil liability case is now in the public domain.
The nation’s most powerful legislators have grown accustomed to riding in plush private coporate jets. How does that affect public policy?
A must read article by Carl Elliott, MD, Ph.D in the Atlantic Monthly provides the best insight into how pharmaceutical drug reps operate and the milieu in which today’s physicians practice
Our questions Re: Thimerosal are threefold.
