Reputations for Sale ? BMJ-BBC-Panorama-Seroxat/ Paxil
BBC-Panorama–third in a series: The Secrets of Seroxat. "In the interests of patients and professional integrity" is to show those who have sold their reputations "intolerance and exposure."
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Are Lipid lowering (Statins) Guidelines Evidence-Based? Lancet
The authors argue that recommendations for the expanded use of statins to stave off cardiovascular disease are NOT supported by the evidence.
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NEJM- Caught Covering Up for National Kidney Foundation–an indudstry front group
Readers of the New England Journal of Medicine should be forewarned: The information in the pages of the NEJM is tainted by industry influence, its professional and scientific integrity are tainted.
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Assaultive Prescribing of Psych Drugs for Children
Australian psychiatrist: "Does anyone else see tardive dysmentia after atypicalantipsychotics?"
U.S. Doctors are prescribing the antidepressant, Effexor (150mg) for infants under age one!
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Flu Vaccine–where is the evidence?
This is an addendum to yesterday's Infomail in which we disseminated disinformation issued by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC). www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/396/80
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UK: Drugs firms ‘creating ills for every pill / US ‘Bioshield’ Drug-Patent Plan Draws Fire
UK: Drugs firms ‘creating ills for every pill / US ‘Bioshield’ Drug-Patent Plan Draws Fire Mon, 04 Apr 2005 Following the public revelations about the concealed safety hazards of antidepressant drugs whose risks of violence, drug dependency, and suicide, were hidden from physicians and the public, a committee of Parliament…
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Statin-Cholesterol Guidelines–Industry influenced?
Statin-Cholesterol Guidelines–Industry influenced? Wed, 14 Jul 2004 Scientific journal editors are scrambling about how to react to bad publicity emanating from public disclosure that the scientific reports they have published are likely to be biased because the authors’ had financial ties to the companies whose drugs / devices they report…
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NIH: Public Servant or Private Marketer?
NIH: Public Servant or Private Marketer? Wed, 22 Dec 2004 David Willman of the Los Angeles Times provides an important reminder that the FDA is not the only government healthcare agency to have betrayed the public trust and lost its credibility. While the FDA has lent its seal of approval…
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Just How Effective are Medical Screening Tests?
Just How Effective are Medical Screening Tests? Mon, 17 Nov 2003 A investigative report in the Guardian (UK) takes a critical view of medical screening for early detection of latent diseases. Contrary to the promoters of medical screening tests, there is scant evidence that early detection actually saves lives. The…
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Randomized Controlled Trials: Evidence Biased Psychiatry
Randomized Controlled Trials: Evidence Biased Psychiatry By David Healy, MD MRCPsych Introduction A new drug gets introduced to the market. It has been approved after stringent scrutiny by the FDA, which requires ever more convincing evidence that it works and that its safe. The new treatment will always cost more…
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Antidepressants Pregnancy Risk: Babies Adversely Affected
Antidepressants Pregnancy Risk: Babies Adversely Affected Sat, 5 Feb 2005 Thanks to the BBC 3-part Panorama series (beginning October 2002), it is no longer a secret that coming off SSRI antidepressants can cause serious symptoms of withdrawal in some users. Christopher Pittman is on trial for killing his grandparents while…
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FDA’s Lethal Weakness Requires More than Committees
FDA’s Lethal Weakness Requires More than Committees Sun, 7 Nov 2004 Bloomberg News reports that New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer requested information from Pfizer about the promotion of some of its drugs for unapproved uses – the recalled diabetes drug, Rezulin and the antidepressant, Zoloft were named. In…