America’s Medicated Army + New Studies Linking SSRI to Suicide
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.
Antipsychotic Use in Children: FDA Panel Rejects FDA Soft-Peddle Approach
"The committee’s concerns are part of a growing chorus of complaints about the increasing use of antipsychotic medicines in children and teenagers.
Public Furor Forces NYU to Pull Ransom Note Ad Campaign
Good news but continued vigilance required! A backlash by outraged parents and advocates for responsible evidence-based rhetoric about physical and mental health issues, forced Dr. Harold Koplewicz, founder and director of the NYU Child Study Center, to pull the irresponsible, fear mongering "ransom note" ad campaign in which threats and…
ADDENDUM: Scientifically Invalid SSRI Study
When scientists are for sale and "peer reviewed" journals publish planted commercial pronouncements masquerading as "science" news reports, the public is advised to disregard those "news" reports and wait for the evidence to be independently examined and either corroborated or refuted.
Study on Youth Suicide Rates–Scientifically Invalid
A scientifically invalid study by financially compromised psychiatrists is but industy’s latest effort to rehabilitate SSRI antidepressants in the wake of public disclosure that these drugs DOUBLED the risk of suicidal acts.
“It’s a Chemical Sledgehammer” Children in Foster Care
The chemical abuse of U.S. children in foster care represent the collapse of civilized medicine.
The Secret Eli Lilly Zyprexa Documents–A Case For CivilDisobedience
A First Amendment lawyer challenges the rationale given by Judge Jack Weinstein for sealing the Zyprexa documents in the first place.
U of Toronto Endowment: Alternative Care Research by Mental Patients
A new century has bred a group of young educated people openly supporting each other in a bid to consolidate their strengths:
The Case Against Mandatory HPV Vaccinations
The fracas arising from Merck’s aggressive lobbying states to mandate its new HPV vaccine, Gardasil, for 11 year old girls has kicked up a dust storm and drawn a line in the sand.
FDA Abandons DrugWatch-Reduces Safety Info to * Asterisk
The FDA has just released its “Guidance on Drug Safety Information” abandoning its own proposed ‘DrugWatch Site Guideliens (2005), http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/6657dft.htm replacing it with an *asterisk and an impossible to find location on the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) web page. A mere * is supposed to convey what…
FDA Set to Approve Antibiotic for Cattle That Poses Catastrophic Threat_WashPost
Overshadowing all other health related news, a front page report in The Washington Post and the just released Breckenridge report evaluating FDA's abysmal performance on drug safety, http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/latest-report-blasts-fda-bungling-drug.html require Congressional action.
Latest Report Blasts FDA Bungling Drug Safety Tracking–Waste & 4-year Delay
FDA administrators "mishandled the initiative through bureaucratic infighting, flawed planning and duplicative work performed by outside contractors." The report estimates that agency administrators wasted $25 million on a computer system that won't be functional before 2009.