URGE THE SENATE TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM FORCED DRUGGING!
Urge your Senators to VOTE YES for the Child Medication Safety Act (S. 4041, HR 1790) !!!
Debate: PhRMA and its relations with Gov, Academia, Doctors and Consumers_Oct 4-5
Two especially timely conferences focus on MEDICINE AND THE LAW:
Antipsychotics, Newer Isn’t BetterDrug_Washington Post front page
“a study published yesterday overturns conventional wisdom about antipsychotic drugs, which cost the United States $10 billion a year.”
Troubled Children Exposed to Psych Treatments Causing More Harm_ NYT
The most striking acknowledgement in this sad story underscores the shaky foundation upon which the field of child psychiatry rests is the following statement by a Harvard University child psychiatrist: "When she was almost 8… Haley met full criteria for virtually every mental disorder listed."
Alternative Medicine Cover story: Kids & Psychiatric Drugs: Big Pharma Comes to the Classroom
Alternative Medicine is a national magazine with 165,000 subscribers. It is also sold nationwide on newsstands. Its cover story, Nov/Dec, is Kids & Psychiatric Drugs: BIG PHARMA comes to the classroom!
Russian Psychiatry : Again a Weapon Against Dissenters_WashPost
No legitimate physician would use the physician’s professional license to help repressive government regimes intimidate dissidents.
FDA Says Bayer Failed to Reveal Lethal Drug Risks–but Fails to Change Licensure or Label_NYT
FDA issued an advisory stating that the concealed study results demonstrate "that use of Trasylol may increase the chance for death, serious kidney damage, congestive heart failure and strokes."
Pediatric Cardiologist Explains: The crucial health stat you’ve never heard of_Slate
Dr. Sanghavi provides us with a statistical reality-check by which to gauge for ourselves whether or not we should–or need not–take a octor’s advice about starting a medical treatment for a speculated risk–rather than evidence of illness.
UK Chanel 4 Investigates: The Drug Trial That Went Wrong_Critique NEJM Editorial
“The Drug Trial That Went Wrong” is an investigative report by Chanel 4 (UK) about the circumstances surrounding the near fatal drug trial testing the safety of TGN1412, a monoclonal antibody drug, conducted in March 2006 at London’s Northwick Park Hospital. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/5377226.stm It airs momorrow.
Volunteers at Risk_Editorial, NEJM Justifies Catastrophic TGN1412 Experiment
"As long as we continue to manipulate biology in new ways, we probably cannot prevent all such events from occurring. We must do what we can to minimize risk, but the future health of the world population demands that we not let adverse events put an end to medical progress."
2 letters Re: Dr. Nemeroff Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest_WSJ
Success in academic psychiatry is not measured in the improvement of patients' mental health, but rather in quantifiable commercial tender.How many grants one brings to the university, how many publications one churns out each year, and how many corporate and professional advisory boards one serves on–and how much money one…
IOM Report Faults FDA Drug-Safety Process
A report by the Institute of Medicine is sharply critical of FDA’s drug safety monitoring system: "The report’s conclusions are striking and often damning – particularly when discussing the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, known as C.D.E.R."