Rebecca Riley’s Murderous Care Remembered
"Her mother’s murder trial has been over for a couple of weeks now, but I’m still haunted by little Rebecca Riley."
DSM5 Revisions
"Anything you put in that book, any little change you make, has huge implications not only for psychiatry but for pharmaceutical marketing, research, for the legal system, for who’s considered to be normal or not, for who’s considered disabled," said Dr. Michael First, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who edited the DSM4l but is not involved in the DSM5.
Antidepressants shown worthless for most consumers
The comments below expand upon an Infomail about the recently published JAMA meta-analysis.
America’s Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics_NYT
A front page article in The New York Times raises the long-overdue alarms about the forced drugging of American children–in particular poor children who are condemned to ingest toxic neuroleptics (a.k.a. ‘atypical antipsychotics) at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. These drugs qualify under…
Evidence: US Healthcare, Third Leading Cause of Death_Institute of Medicine, JAMA, 2000
Is US Health Really the Best in the World?
Information concerning the deficiencies of US Medical care has been accumulating.
CDC Rescinds Mandatory HPV Vaccine for Immigrant Girls
Vaccines against cervical cancer and shingles “don’t fit into the whole public health spirit of outbreak prevention.”
Nursing Homes: Psychotropic Drug Abuse
In the first half of the twenty-first century, U.S. psychiatrists are prescribing the second generation neuroleptics—Zyprexa, Risperdal, Geodon, Seroquel, Abilfy—to coerce innocent children and the elderly into submission.
Gardasil Vaccine Researcher Drops Bombshell
"The reported rate of serious adverse events is greater than the incidence rate of cervical cancer."
Merck’s HPV Gardasil Vaccine: Risks, Benefits, Marketing_JAMA
What possible risk/ benefit standard can justify giving an inadequately studied vaccine whose risks include serious, permanent adverse effects–including death– to millions of girls and women–who will likely never get cervical cancer?
FDA Approves Another Dangerous Antipsychotic, Asenapine
At the July 30, 2009 FDA advisory committee hearing, the only formal presentations at the meeting were a summary of the safety and efficacy data by the sponsor.
Safety Concerns about the of H1N1 Swine flu Vaccine & Public Policy
History is about to repeat itself: This is a follow up to a July 26, 2009 I nfomail.
Children Rx ADHD Drugs 7.4 times increased risk of sudden death
But FDA says keep taking the "medicines."