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FATAL FLAW Efforts to Overturn SSRI Black Box warning before it has even been implemented Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 Even as the Black Box Suicidality Warning on SSRI antidepressant labels have not even been implemented, aggressive efforts are underway by a powerful consortium of medical-pharmaceuticaql self-interest groups – among…
FDA approves anti-psychotic, clozapine, to treat suicide December 20, 2002 The first of the so-called atypical antipsychotic drugs, clozapine (Clozaril), has been approved by the FDA as a treatment against suicide in patients with schizophrenia. The drug has been hailed as a miracle for some, but deadly for others. The…
Internal Documents: Bayer Knew of Baycol Dangers _NYT Sun, 23 Feb 2003 The New York Times reports that internal company documents show that Bayer Pharmaceuticals continued to sell the lethal anti-cholesterol drug, Baycol, despite knowledge that it caused rhabdomyolysis, which causes muscle cells to break down and their contents to…
FDA: regulatory protections for children. Comments submitted by Vera Hassner Sharav, John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D and Howard Fishman, MEd, MSW for AHRP August 6, 2001 To: Dr. Bernard Schwetz Acting Commissioner Food and Drug Administration Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 Rockville,…
Bristol Myers Squibb Takes Serzone off the market on June 14 – AP Wed, 19 May 2004 The antidepressant Serzone, TAKEN OFF THE MARKET as of June 14 (for “business reasons” the company says). The drug was already taken off the market in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In…
US Marshals Seize Millions of Defective Paxil & Avandamet pills_NYT Mon, 7 Mar 2005 The FDA and federal marshals yanked millions of tablets of the antidepressant, Paxil CR (Seroxat, controlled release) and the diabetes drug, Avandamet, off the market because they are defective. The Paxil pills split during manufacturing, and…