Analysis of paroxetine Yellow Card adverse drug reaction reports (Seroxat/Paxil)

Analysis of paroxetine Yellow Card adverse drug reaction reports (Seroxat/Paxil) Thu, 20 Nov 2003 A unique analysis of the British Yellow Card Reporting system for adverse drug reactions (ADR) found that the nature, the scope and severity of ADRs relating to drug dependency and suicidal behavior from the antidepressant paroxetine…

Can a Popular Antidepressant Cause Teenage Suicide? Boston Globe

Can a Popular Antidepressant Cause Teenage Suicide? Boston Globe Wed, 6 Aug 2003 For years, drug manufacturers and regulators (in the UK and US) have falsely maintained that antidepressants–such as Paxil (Seroxat), Prozac, and the other SSRIs–reduce the risk of suicide, and, they maintained, the drugs are not addictive. An…

Ecstasy- Long-lasting brain damage and may trigger Parkinson’s_BBC

Ecstasy- Long-lasting brain damage and may trigger Parkinson’s_BBC October 2, 2002 In 1989 Dr. George Ricaurte (Johsn Hopkins University) reported that MDMA (Ecstasy) the party drug used at all night dances (“raves”) caused neurotoxicity, long-lasting brain damage in non-human primates at doses similar to those ingested by humans. In the…

University of Calif, SF: Patients Rights Violated_SF Chronicle

July 29, 2002 University of Calif, SF: Patients Rights Violated – San Francisco Chronicle FYI The San Francisco Chronicle reports in a front page article that the federal Office of Human Research Protection determined that University of California, San Francisco, violated patients’ rights by conducting medical research without legal informed…

Medical Science Violating Children – 450 healthy children targeted – Redflagsweekly

Aug 20, 2002 Medical Science Violating Children – 450 healthy children targeted – Redflagsweekly FYI Redflagsweekly is the first online health news service to pick up on a news item provided in yesterday’s AHRP Infomail about a proposed experiment (whose researcher seeks government funding) to be conducted on 450 children…

Schizophrenia Drug Implants May Qualify as Medical Torture

Schizophrenia Drug Implants May Qualify as Medical Torture Sun, 17 Nov 2002 In some patients, antipsychotic drugs induce excruciating, intolerable side-effects. In some people these drugs’ toxic action has caused severe liver, heart, and kidney damage, as well as dangerously high blood pressure– some patients have died as a result…

Comments re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2-5 year old children

Comments re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2-5 year old children Mon, 2 Dec 2002 Recent public and professional debate about a smallpox vaccine trial and its risks provides the framework for evaluating the ethical justification for conducting clinical trials on children. The Alliance for Human Research Protection has submitted documented…

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Bad Medicine – Editorial – Guardian UK

Bad Medicine – Editorial – Guardian UK Sat, 12 Jun 2004 New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, is being recognized as a hero on both sides of the Atlantic. That’s because, unlike FDA officials, he knows how to use a “smoking gun” to affect change in corporate practices to…

A Frustrated Psychiatrist Abandons Her Practice to Get Out from under "Evaluating and Medicating"

A Frustrated Psychiatrist Abandons Her Practice to Get Out from under “Evaluating and Medicating" Mon, 20 Dec 2004 Dr. Karen Stevenson writes: “My job is to pronounce the name of the disorder and to write the prescription to fill it. I receive financial incentives to ‘evaluate and to medicate’ as…