Glaxo Is Testing Paxil on 7-Year-Olds Despite Well Known Suicide Risks
Despite the fact that children may be at highest risk of antidepressant-induced suicide, GlaxoSmithKline is testing Paxil on 7 to 18 year old Japanese children.
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The Drug Pushers by Carl Elliott Atlantic Monthly
A must read article by Carl Elliott, MD, Ph.D in the Atlantic Monthly provides the best insight into how pharmaceutical drug reps operate and the milieu in which today’s physicians practice
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Doctors Back Ban on Gifts From Drug Makers_Journal Hypocrisy
"32% of the advertisements [in peer reviewed journals] misled readers regarding efficacy, 40% did not provide balanced descriptions of the side effects, and 44% could lead to improper prescribing if the physician did not use other sources of information regarding the drug."
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Big Pharma: The Fool’s Gold that Heals_New Book
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: