Debate Over Antidepressants – Letters NYT Mon, 11 Aug 2003 The New York Times published 5 letters re: “Debate Resumes on the Safety of Depression’s Wonder Drugs.” One letter from someone who experienced “a minor depressive episode” and was prescribed Celexa, one of the SSRI antidepressants. He describes experiencing “extreme,…
Debate Resumes on the Safety of Depression’s Wonder Drugs – NYT Thu, 7 Aug 2003 After a decade of lies, deception, and cover-up of evidence linking antidepression drugs – such as, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft – to acts of suicide in previously non-suicidal people – children and adults, some of who…
Brainstorm to Breakthrough: A Surgical Procedure is Born – NYT Mon, 4 Aug 2003 Two contrasting reports about experimental surgical procedures: The New York Times reports about a breakthrough surgical procedure to lengthen the intestine in babies born with an intestine so short it is dysfunctional and they are at…
A Come Back for Psychosurgery? Wed, 6 Aug 2003 The Los Angeles Times reports that experimental psychosurgery is once again on the rise – at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital and Brown University. It is acknowledged that “Researchers still do not fully understand how the operations affect the brain, or why”……
The Culture of Disease – Fierstein – NYT Thu, 31 Jul 2003 Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, an artist/ celebrity with impeccable credentials in the gay and straight communities, speaks out in The New York Times against the current “culture of disease.” He notes that (among other things) that culture…
Iowa seeks dismissal of lawsuit: Monster Experiment induced stuttering Fri, 11 Jul 2003 CNN reports that the State of Iowa seeks a lawsuit dismissed against the University of Iowa, claiming immunity. The suit was filed on behalf of three surviving people who had been victimized as children in a cruel…
AHRP Letter to the editor re: editorial ARDS trial July 10, 2003. The New England Journal of Medicine. Volume 349:188-192 Number 2 http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/349/2/188 Note: The April 3, 2003 the NEJM contained an editorial in support of a controversial multi-site, clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute…
Hopkins Asks Patients to Waive Privacy Rights to Facilitate Research Recruiting – AP/ ABC Tue, 8 Jul 2003 In the 19th century doctors robbed graves to obtain cadavers for medical training purposes. Today, medical researchers are far more ambitious– they seek backdoor access to living patients for medical experiments. A…
Once Misdiagnosed, Writer Teaches Psychiatrists About Treatment – Psychol Today Fri, 27 Jun 2003 An article in Psychology Today is about an incredible story of survival. A teenager misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, then wrongly incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. Mindy Lewis survived for three years of being “drugged and locked away…
Rate of Preschool Kids Prescribed Antidepressants Skyrockets – Cong Investigates FDA Fri, 2 Apr 2004 A new survey by Express Scripts found the rate at which American children are prescribed antidepressants almost doubled (49%) in 5 years. The steepest unfathomable, medically unsupportable, increase–64%–was among preschool children. This is evidence of…
ACNP – a pharmaceutical industry funded association of psychiatrists – claims SSRI Antidepressants don’t increase suicidal behavior Wed, 21 Jan 2004 related links: Reply to ACNP Report – Jonathan Leo, Ph.D. FDA Sham Conflicts of Interest Policy The American College of Neuropsychopharmacologists (ACNP), an organization of psychiatrists with significant financial…
June 18, 2003. GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of Paroxetine (Seroxat, Paxil) issued a letter addressed to British Healthcare Professionals, disclosing that the drug was found be linked to serious undesirable effects in depressed children and adolescents under age 18. Below is an excerpt followed by the original letters: UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS Adverse events…
