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Placebo Effect

Placebo Beat Both Zyprexa & Eli Lilly’s Experimental Drug

April 14, 2009 |

The results suggest that the truth may have escaped the usual exclusion criteria. Underlying the commercial success of the new antipsychotics is evidence (usually suppressed) showing that these drugs are both harmful and ineffective even for their approved use.
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Categorized Placebo Effect | Tagged FDA, drug trials, Zyprexa, Eli Lilly, schizophrenia

Controlled Trial: Antidepressants Useless to Treat Anorexia–Risk: 1 of 49 Attempted Suicide

June 14, 2006 |

A team of researchers from Columbia University and the University of Toronto, headed by Dr. Timothy Walsh (New York) tested the effect of antidepressants in the treatment of anorexia in a placebo controlled randomized trial. Continue reading →

Categorized Placebo Effect | Tagged Clinical Trials, Placebo Effect, FDA, Psychiatry, SSRI, JAMA, Psychotropic Drugs, Serotonin, Statin

Humbling Reality–Treatments for Depression Often Fail_Boston Globe

March 11, 2006 |

The Boston Globe reports (below): “More than 50 years after psychiatrists began widely dispensing drugs to treat mental illness, the profession is coming face to face with a humbling reality: Its treatments often fail, leaving millions of patients [ ] to suffer while doctors search for something that works.”
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Categorized Placebo Effect | Tagged Clinical Trials, Placebo Effect, FDA, depression, Bi-Polar, psychosis, stimulants, Psychiatry, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, SSRI, The Wall Street Journal, schizophrenia, Psychotropic Drugs, The Boston Globe

Big Pharma: The Fool’s Gold that Heals_New Book

January 15, 2006 |

Big Pharma by Jacky Law reveals that in essence, most of the pharmaceutical industry’s claims are false; it is not the drug, but the placebo effect whose potency deserves almost all of the credit for any health improvement:
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Categorized Placebo Effect | Tagged Clinical Trials, Placebo Effect, Journal advertising, FDA, GlaxoSmithKline, Carl Elliott, Viagra, Hypertension, Harvard, Vioxx, Merck, Antidepressants, schizophrenia, Paxil, Pfizer

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AHRP Board Member's Recent Posts, Testimonies, Publications

06. 2019. Truth in Research Labelling, John H. Noble Jr., Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

04. 2019. Missing, hidden and destroyed adverse event data. Who vaccinates?, Meryl Nass, MD

03. 2019. Whither Cochrane?, Meryl Nass, MD and John H. Noble Jr., Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

03. 2019. A sample of vaccine and injectable medication tragedies in the US during my lifetime, Meryl Nass, MD

03. 2019. The Skinny on Pertussis, Vaccines and Enforced Mandates, Meryl Nass, MD

03. 2019. My testimony on vaccine exemptions to the Maine joint Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Meryl Nass, MD

03. 2019. Indisputable: CDC is not making prudent vaccine recommendations, Meryl Nass, MD

03. 2019. OP-ED: Why Americans don’t trust vaccine makers, Meryl Nass, MD, Bangor Daily News, also posted here.

01. 2019. Expert witness David Egilman wins billions—and makes enemies—as he fights companies over public health, David Egilman, MD, Science Magazine

01. 2019. Challenging The Promotion Of Antidepressants For Non-Severe Depression, John H. Noble Jr., Alain Braillon, and Joel Lexchin, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia

01. 2019. Measles: Two U.S. Outbreaks are Blamed on Low Vaccination Rates, Another Perspective, Meryl Nass, MD, British Medical Journal, also posted here.

07. 2018. J&J seeks retraction of papercritical of Pinnaclehip study, David Egilman, MD, MassDevice.com

07. 2018. Artificial Hip Maker Demands Retraction Of A Paper Calling Its Research ‘Grave Fraudulence’, David Egilman, MD, STAT News

02. 2018. How effective are Flu Shots? CDC says its an (optimistic) 40%, Meryl Nass, MD

02. 2018. Re: Doctor Who Linked Thimerosal to Autism Wins Damages From Maryland Medical Board for Harrassing and Humiliating Him, Meryl Nass, MD

02. 2018. Can it be? Study finds that college students who had been vaccinated against flu were more likely to excrete flu virus / Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, Meryl Nass, MD

01. 2018. Court Records Show How a Medical Device ‘Seeding Trial’ Disguised Marketing as Science, David Egilman, MD, Health News Review

01. 2018. Meningococcal Vaccine is a Scam -- but you may forfeit an education if you refuse, Meryl Nass, MD

01. 2018. Grave fraudulence in medical device research: a narrative review of the PIN seeding study for the Pinnacle hip system, Joan E. Steffen, B.A., Ella A. Fassler, B.S., Kevin J. Reardon , M.A., and David S. Egilman, M.D., M.P.H. Accountability in Research

11. 2017. Sudden Shift at a Public HealthJournal Leaves ScientistsFeeling Censored, David Egilman, MD, ProPublica

05. 2017. Letter Submitted to New England Journal of Medicine re ARDS Investigation, John H. Noble Jr. and Vera Hassner Sharav

03. 2017. Should Research Ethics Committees Police Reporting Bias? Rapid Response (Fourth Comment), John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal, comment also posted here

02. 2017. A Need To Stand United: Reply To The WAME Secretary, John H. Noble Jr., Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

01. 2017. Corporate Corruption of Science—AnotherAsbestos Example, David Egilman, MD, American Journal of Industrial Medicine

09. 2016. ''Trust The Researchers'': Flying In The Face Of Evidence, John H. Noble Jr., Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

05. 2016. ‘YOU WANT A DESCRIPTION OF HELL?’ OXYCONTIN’S 12-HOUR PROBLEM, David Egilman, MD, Los Angeles Times

05. 2016. Peeling The Onion From The Inside Out, John H. Noble Jr., Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

05. 2015. Re: FDA Disagrees With BMJ Study That Found Clinical Trials Were Not Being Reported, John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal

05. 2015. Re: Comparative Effectiveness Of Exercise And Drug Interventions On Mortality Outcomes: Metaepidemiological Study, John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal

05. 2015. Re: Evidence Based Medicine: A Movement In Crisis, John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal

05. 2015. Re: US Researchers Failed To Disclose Risks Of Newborn Study, Finds Government Office, John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal

05. 2015. Re: Research Misconduct Is Widespread And Harms Patients, John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal

05. 2015. Re: Should Research Fraud Be A Crime?, John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal

01. 2012. The Emperor Is Marching Around Buck Naked, John H. Noble Jr., British Medical Journal

02. 2011. Medical Ethics and Contemporary Medicine: Mandatory Vaccination: An Inversion Of Medical Ethics And Human Rights, Vera Hassner Sharav, Ed. Louise Kuo Habakus, and Mary Holland, JD, Vaccine Epidemic

03. 2009. Speculation Does Not Constitute Scientific Evidence, Vera Hassner Sharav, PLoS Medicine

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