Avandia, a Case of Deja Vu all over again
Professor and chair of the department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville. From 2009 to 2013 she was a professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City’s department of Biomedical and Health Informatics. From 1996 to 2009 she was a professor at Dartmouth Medical School and…
Using drugs to cope with battlefield traumas is not discussed much outside the Army, but inside the service it has been the subject of debate for years.
Suicide Rate Unchanged in 10 Years–JAMA / AMA Considers Stand Against Warning Labels on Antidepressants Thu, 9 Jun 2005 A major report in the Journal of the American Medical Association shatters all claims about the effectiveness of antidepressants as a treatment for the prevention of suicide. A comparison of the…
America’s health care expenditure is about to go through the roof–without improving anyone’s health!
U.S. Contracts for Safer Smallpox Vaccine_Reuters 26 Feb 2003 The public’s refusal to expose themselves to the risks of the unsafe U.S. smallpox vaccine, has led the government to contract with a British and Danish company to make a safer vaccine. The Alliance for Human Research Protection had campaigned vigorously…
Newly published results (phase II) from the CATIE schizophrenia treatment efficacy study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health comparing the most commonly used second generation drug treatments for schizophrenia and depression, is highly disturbing.