Posts Tagged ‘Placebo Effect’
ADHD drug Cylert withdrawn from market due to Liver Toxicity
ADHD drug – Cylert withdrawn from market due to Liver Toxicity, a Major Risk of Psychotropic Drugs Tue, October 25, 2005 The FDA announced that another drug prescribed for ADHD–Cylert–was removed from the US market for safety reasons. On September 25, 2005, the Associated Press reported: “Eli Lilly said it provided the FDA results from…
Read MorePharma’s Pervasive Influence Corrupts Medicine both sides of Atlantic
Pharma’s Pervasive Influence Corrupts Medicine both sides of Atlantic Tue, 4 Oct 2005 The focus of criticism in medicine has shifted from cost and barriers to access to treatments to an examination of the safety and benefit of current treatments. The pharmaceutical industry’s corrupting influence on physicians, academic researchers, the lay and professional journals, and…
Read MoreAntidepressant Use in Children Soars Despite Efficacy Doubts – Washington Post
Antidepressant Use in Children Soars Despite Efficacy Doubts – Washington Post Mon, 19 Apr 2004 A front page article by Shankar Vedantam in The Washington Post examines the soaring increase in the antidepressant drug prescriptions for children, noting: “The explosion in antidepressant use occurred even though the vast majority of clinical trials have failed to…
Read MoreMarketing Suicide by Misapplying Population Trends_No Competing Interests?
Suicide rates fluctuate. Like the stock market their rise and fall is not due to a single decisive cause, but rather to a confluence of complex factors.
Read MoreControlled Trial: Antidepressants Useless to Treat Anorexia–Risk: 1 of 49 Attempted Suicide
A team of researchers from Columbia University and the University of Toronto, headed by Dr. Timothy Walsh (New York) tested the effect of antidepressants in the treatment of anorexia in a placebo controlled randomized trial.
Read MoreHumbling Reality–Treatments for Depression Often Fail_Boston Globe
The Boston Globe reports (below): “More than 50 years after psychiatrists began widely dispensing drugs to treat mental illness, the profession is coming face to face with a humbling reality: Its treatments often fail, leaving millions of patients [ ] to suffer while doctors search for something that works.”
Read MoreWhen Trust in Doctors Erodes
"Soon, intuition and the personal experience of friends and family may seem as trustworthy as advice from a doctor in diagnosing an illness or judging a treatment."
Read MoreExperts 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.
Read MoreBig 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:
Read MoreNIMH-funded antidepression drug efficacy / safety studies_What do they prove?
Two studies purporting to report “new encouraging” findings about the efficacy and safety of antidepressants—as tested in the “real world”—were published on Sunday by The American Journal of Psychiatry with an accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Insel, director of these studies’ funding agency, the National Institute of Mental Health.
Read MoreNIMH-funded antidepression drug efficacy / safety studies_What do they prove?
Two studies purporting to report “new encouraging” findings about the efficacy and safety of antidepressants were published on Sunday by The American Journal of Psychiatry with an accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Insel, director of these studies’ funding agency, the National Institute of Mental Health.
Read More18% decrease SSRI use in Youth – NYT / Suicide Risk Not New – Globe / Prozac no different
18% decrease SSRI use in Youth – NYT / Suicide Risk Not New – Globe / Prozac no different Tue, 21 Sep 2004 The FDA failed to stop drug manufacturers from flooding the air waves and the scientific literature with false and scientifically invalid claims-based on partial data. “The FDA and pharmaceutical companies swept [the…
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