A federal Judge of the Eastern District (Brooklyn) issued a ruling upholding a seal on documents that contain evidence linking Zyprexa, Eli Lilly's antipsychotic drug to diabetes Continue reading →
Drug Safety
FDA Rescinds–Advisory Hearing on Suicide Opened to Speakers WhoWere Locked Out
Two Press Briefings are planned to demonstrate the multiple flaws in FDA's methodology and to provide credible science-based information.
Dangerous Deception: Hiding the Evidence of Adverse Drug Effects_NEJM
FDA's slip-shod approval of defective, harmful drugs, accompanied by rubber stampped endorsements by compromised FDA advisory committees may be reaching a boiling point.
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Antipsychotic Drugs are Killing patients_Brit J Psychiatry
A major 17-year follow up study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry [1] found a 2.84 times (95% CI 2.06–3.90) increased risk of mortality in people with schizophrenia compared to those not so diagnosed, and with each addition of a neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drug, the risk increased another 2.50.
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Experts Debate Psych Drug Effectiveness, But Overlook Key Element of Recovery_Newsweek
By denigrading all non-chemical interventions, by focusing narrowly on drugs and drugs alone, psychiatry has signed away its profession status. Continue reading →
Drug Safety Issues-IOM Panel Blasts FDA Advisory Committee Process
IOM committee members were highly critical of FDA’s advisory panels that regularly “recommend” approval without analyzing the safety data.
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Institute of Medicine Committee: FDA drug label “is irrelevant”
"It’s not a question of just knowing the risks and it’s not a question of labeling against risk. The question is how do you change behavior?" Continue reading →
FDA warns diet drugs contain Prozac and Librium
Pharmaceutical News reports that the FDA has issued warnings about diet pills from Brazil marketed as dietary supplements, that contain Prozac and Librium.
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Prescription for Disaster–Shift to Medicare leaves Patients Stranded
In what appears to be a re-run of the Katrina rescue disaster–The New York Times front page report provides yet another example of mindless and heartless shot gun public polices that are being tested on a vulnerable population of citizens:
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