Critique of FDA’s latest SSRI Data Analysis
PRESS BRIEFING: Critique of FDA Report: “Clinical review relationship between antidepressant drugs and suicidality in adults, 2006” http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4272b1-index.htm
PRESS BRIEFING: Critique of FDA Report: “Clinical review relationship between antidepressant drugs and suicidality in adults, 2006” http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4272b1-index.htm
Two Press Briefings are planned to demonstrate the multiple flaws in FDA's methodology and to provide credible science-based information.
"the first-ever randomized, placebo-controlled trial for the alleviation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)" reports: "we found that it really offered patients no benefits of any symptoms." [1]
U.S. State Attorneys General should investigate the fraudulent marketing of the atypical neuroleptic drugs-and FDA's role in helping conceal the truth.
An eye opening article by Jeanne Lenzer, “NIH Secrets,” in The New Republic (below), should make the new Congress sit up and take notice!
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
Steven Fiorello, former Chief Pharmacist for the State of Pennsylvania, was arraigned on on Tuesday, November 21, 2006, on Felony and Misdemeanor charges related to his accepting money from drug companies whose drugs he put on the state Formulary.
Today's news report circulated by the media about the negative findings of a much touted, but uncontrolled observational study of depression (STAR*D) promotes the business interests of SSRI antidepressant drug manufacturers.
"Some politicians, public health officials, mental health activists and pharmaceutical companies have worked to establish mental-health screening programs in schools and the community….Researchers and clinicians, meanwhile, say they are far from having developed accurate predictors of a child developing depression. The younger the child, the murkier the crystal ball."
FDA Public Health Advisory: SSRI-Suicide link in adults Wed, 20 Jul 2005 The American Medical Association is attempting to trivialize the hazards of prescribing SSRIs to children, urging physicians not to allow the evidence to interfere with their prescribing habits. See: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/print/15186.html The AMA has done the public a disservice…
Fewer Kids Prescribed Drugs for Depression – WashPost Wed, 2 Feb 2005 A report by Medco revealing a decline in SSRI prescriptions for children is giving drug industry stakeholders nightmares about the cash flow. The Washington Post reports "medical groups such as the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy…
Junk Science Hits Front Page Headlines: Most Americans Will Be Mentally Ill at Some Point – NIMH / Harvard Study Says Tue, 7 Jun 2005 Americans may be astonished to learn that $20 million in taxpayers’ money was spent on a study whose unacknowledged purpose is to increase the use…