TeenScreen – “Under Intense Criticism Nationally”
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports (below): "TeenScreen, developed by a Columbia University professor, has come under intense criticism nationally."
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Bill Frist’s most Frequent Corporate Flight Hosts–Pharmaceutical companies
The nation’s most powerful legislators have grown accustomed to riding in plush private coporate jets. How does that affect public policy?
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Marriage of Convenience: Mental Screening–Eli Lilly check $500k
Mental Screening ties to drug companies exposed. Screening for Mental Health (Harvard affiliated) received $500K from Eli Lillly. See: https://ahrp.stagenoises.ch/children/mentalscreen/LillyCheck.jpg
TeenScreen hired high powered PR firms whose business is to create promotional campaigns to increase drug sales for its clients.
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Safety of Newborn infants Threatened by Rx antidepressants during pregnancy
"During a hastily called press conference yesterday,” the FDA announced that it is considering ADDITIONAL warnings on the labels of SSRI drugs—Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, et al.
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Another Study Shows: Antipsychotic Trials Biased Towards Sponsor’s Drug
An independent review by a team of German analysts published in the American Journal of Psychiatry confirms that corporate bias is ubiquitous in clinical trials.
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Polypharm & New Antipsychotics Not More Beneficial-Just More Expensive
"modern pharmacological treatment may be no more beneficial than older ones, despite their added cost."
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Jane Pauley- from Steroids to mania to depression to Bi-Polar-to Drugs for Life
"After another four months or so on antidepressants, bringing me to a total of 10 months between the steroids and antidepressants, I was suddenly flipped into this hypomania."
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FDA shielding Big Pharma
"Now they are terrified that their crimes of commission and omission could reap them the same whirlwind harvest of accountability."
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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:
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FDA Plan Would Aid Drug Makers in Liability Suits
FDA political appointees have embarked on a plan to divest the American consumer of the right to seek compensation for defective prescription drugs.
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ACNP Task Force Ties to Pharma
Authors of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Task Force on SSRIs and Suicidal Behavior in Youth: their known ties to the pharmaceutical industry
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FDA: NIMH SSRI Study Flawed–No Comparative Untreated Group
Even Dr. Robet Temple, FDA Medical Policy Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation & Research dismisses the claimed finidings of a flawed, but highly trumpeted recent SSRI study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.
