Critique of FDA’s latest SSRI Data Analysis
PRESS BRIEFING: Critique of FDA Report: “Clinical review relationship between antidepressant drugs and suicidality in adults, 2006” http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4272b1-index.htm
FDA Rescinds–Advisory Hearing on Suicide Opened to Speakers WhoWere Locked Out
Two Press Briefings are planned to demonstrate the multiple flaws in FDA's methodology and to provide credible science-based information.
Another Psych Drug Demonstrated to be USELESS / HARMFUL_Yale /Columbia
"the first-ever randomized, placebo-controlled trial for the alleviation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)" reports: "we found that it really offered patients no benefits of any symptoms." [1]
Assaultive Prescribing of Psych Drugs for Children
Australian psychiatrist: "Does anyone else see tardive dysmentia after atypicalantipsychotics?"
U.S. Doctors are prescribing the antidepressant, Effexor (150mg) for infants under age one!
IRB Forum Not Inclined to Discuss the Most Serious Issue of All
Unssuccessful effort to engage debate within the community of the authorized clinical research gatekeepers charged with protecting the safety and welfare of the human subjects of research–i.e., members of institutional review boards (IRBs–REBs in Canada).
Zyprexa Drug Rep Video on YouTube
A video you MUST SEE–an ex-Zyprexa sales rep spills the beans!
New Schizophrenia Drugs No Better Than CheaperGenerics_Bloomberg_WashPost
U.S. State Attorneys General should investigate the fraudulent marketing of the atypical neuroleptic drugs-and FDA's role in helping conceal the truth.
Hospital IRBs are “On the Take”–Tainted by Conflicts ofInterest_NEJM
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine shatters the last myth about the integrity of the current system of checks and balances in medical research.
Psychiatric Drug Mix for Young On Shaky Grounds_ NYTimes
The lead story in The New York Times on Thanksgiving day (below) acknowledged several facts demonstrating that children are the victims of major medical malpractice:
NIH Secrets Government Funded Data Concealment_Lenzer-New Republic
An eye opening article by Jeanne Lenzer, “NIH Secrets,” in The New Republic (below), should make the new Congress sit up and take notice!
Flu Vaccine–where is the evidence?
This is an addendum to yesterday's Infomail in which we disseminated disinformation issued by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC). www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/396/80
Theory suggests that a shortage of vitamin D triggers outbreaks of flu
The Baltimore Sun reports (below) that in a paper scheduled for publication in the journal Epidemiology and Infection, a Harvard University-led team proposes that a vitamin D deficiency caused by inadequate winter sun exposure may predispose people to infection.