Below a press release from the lawfirm, Baum Hedlund, announces it has filed a class action lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline charging the company with fraud, negligence, strict liability, and breach of warranty in its marketing of Paxil (Seroxat) by concealing the risk of suicide.
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports (below): "TeenScreen, developed by a Columbia University professor, has come under intense criticism nationally."
The nation’s most powerful legislators have grown accustomed to riding in plush private coporate jets. How does that affect public policy?
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.
"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.
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.
"modern pharmacological treatment may be no more beneficial than older ones, despite their added cost."
"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."
"Now they are terrified that their crimes of commission and omission could reap them the same whirlwind harvest of accountability."
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:
FDA political appointees have embarked on a plan to divest the American consumer of the right to seek compensation for defective prescription drugs.
Authors of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Task Force on SSRIs and Suicidal Behavior in Youth: their known ties to the pharmaceutical industry
