Archives - 2008

November

Cipro May Make Your Tendons Snap Off
Wow! A Drug That Will Let Me Have Sex Once More a Month?
Abilify me to see the Usefullness of this Treatment of Depression
Our President's Secret Parting Gift to Corporations: A Get Out of Jail Free Card
Update on Physician Corruption by Pharma
Doubling of Prescription Medication in Kids in a Three Year Period
Here come the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, FDA Lawyers
October

Effects of Zoloft on Childhood Anxiety are Not That Incredible
Ruinedscape: Internet Mediated Childhood Abuse
The Naked Emperor and Saturated Fat, by David Diamond
Dr. Bremner's Chamber of Horrors, Part One, Give Me a D!
Hey Buddy, Want a Placebo? How about a Statin for Your Wife?
Vytorin Tanks, and with Good Reason, and More Chantix Bad News
In Vitro Fertilization and Cancer, by Jennifer Schneider, MD
What, Me Worry? The FDA Will Protect Me from Toxic Drugs
Drug Makers Fire a Shot at Opponents of Preemption
The Prevention of Ignorance, guest post by Dan Abshear
Don’t Panic! Keep Taking Your Vytorin! (I Mean Aspirin!)
A Reader States that Evidence for Harm From Saturated Fats Not That Great
A Vexed Former Pharma Exec Comments on My Book and Hypertension Drugs
More Bullshit Healthcare Proposals from our Future Leaders
We Come In Peas (Oct 14 2008 Is a Special Day)
Disclosures... and paxil, seroxat, paroxetine, etc etc
An Open Letter to Senator Grassley (R-Iowa)
The Emory Press Release That Was Never... Released!
September

A Personal Perspective on the Ups and Downs of the Stock Market (Literally)
Accutane and Birth Defects: A Cautionary Tale
No Redemption for Preemption
Can You Put Some Sugar on that Crap You're Feeding Me?
August

July

Blogmersion: Part II
Blogmersion: Part I
More Bad News About Osteoporosis Drugs
June

Time to Die! (I Mean Time to Quit!)
Mommy, Can I Have a Yummy Blue Pill?
May

A Reader Responds to Scurvey Pirate
Capt. Pill Takes a Shot Across The Bow
Cognitive Therapy for Sleep Problems Works Better than Drugs
Cognitive Therapy for Sleep Problems Works Better Than Drugs
Dealing with Our Healthcare Crisis, One State at a Time
Do We Have a Prescription Drug Problem?
Prescription Medications, Ha Ha Ha!
Is Your Birth Control Pill Driving You Crazy?
Vitamins That Kill!

April

Why Don't We Let the Drug Companies Decide If Bad Outcomes Are Related to their Drugs?
Why Don't They Just Pay Us to Swallow Their Pills?
That Sucking Sound May Be the Pharmaceutical Pipeline Running Dry
Pine Straw Update
Where Do They Come Up With All Those Goofy Names for Prescription Meds Anyway?
Captain Pill Comes Back to his Home Port
Update on Singulair (Montelukast)
Stop That Patient! Or the Corpocracy Rules, Part 1

March

If They Don't Kill Us They Will Drive Us Crazy
Capt. Pill on the High Seas of Pharmaceuticals
They're Drugging Our Drinking Water?

February

Live Without Health Insurance
Do Statins Make You Stupid?
Risk of Breast Cancer with HRT No Big Deal?
Prozac Made Me Do It
Effects of Yoga on Health
Dr. Jarvik Update: He Can't Prescribe or Row
Let's Stop the LDL Cholesterol Numbers Chasing Game
Bisphosphonate Drugs for Osteoporosis Cause Bone Pain
Intensive Blood Glucose Lowering
  With Diabetes Medication Increases Deaths

January

Increased Influenza Resistance to Tamiflu
A Tale of Two Deceptions: Vytorin and Disclosure of Clinical Trial Results
Zetia, Schmetia
Ladies, Don't Fall into the BMD Rat Maze
Shills
Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2007? Veh!

Doug Bremner, MD, is a physician
and researcher in Atlanta GA
and author of Before You Take That Pill:
Why the Drug Industry May be
Bad for Your Health

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