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From the daily archives: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
I was concerned to learn that Philip Dawdy who writes on the Furious Seasons blog was about to get kicked out of his appartment in Seattle. I grew up in Olympia WA and interviewed for a position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington in 2000 where I noticed that [...]
This week I am in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the Annual Meeting of the American College of Narcissistic Psychiatrists (Oops! I mean Neuro-Psychopharmacology… or maybe it was Negotiators for Prostitution, since the word is that the original annual meeting was held in the 1960s and 1970s in San Juan, Puerto Rico, since the whores in San [...]
An article from the Jan. 3 2009 issue of The Lancet used a meta analysis to show that so-called first generation antipsychotics (FGAs) and second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are not that much different in terms of efficacy, safety, and side effect profiles. The purported superiority of SGAs for negative symptoms and fewer side effects for SGAs were primarily the results of comparator studies that put them up against high dose haloperidol.
This has been quite a year for disturbing revelations about the corruption of the medical literature by pharmaceutical company interests. I wrote previously about ghost writing by Merck and others, and how papers were produced by drug companies that said “insert author here” and then they went out and shopped around for an author [...]
There has been some press that most of the members of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Psychiatry (DSM-V) task force are on the pharma payroll, but although sites like Public Citizen quote that 16/28 members are on the payroll, if you actually look at the list on the APA web site there are [...]
Rather than admit that one of their silver bullets, Accutane (isotretinoin), which was a “goose laying the golden egg” for F. Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals (and their various “Roche” associates world-wide) to the tune of a billion dollars a year, could make kids depressed or kill themselves or cause grotesque birth defects in the kids of over half of women exposed when pregnant, dermatologists have sung themselves a lullaby that their magic pills don’t make kids depressed, they actually make them better, by clearing up those ugly zits that drive them to despair.
Well it is flu season now and I was asked by a reader if there was anything new from last year’s post on “Flu shots are for idiots”.
Well I have had some delay because, well, I had the flu.
But that doesn’t mean I am going to get a flu shot!
Since [...]
After posting about the increase in psychotropic drug use in children and commenting that doctors should stop giving antipsychotics to children without schizophrenia I got some words of praise from Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons and some interesting information from Lisa Van Syckel who gave me a list of ages and drugs [...]
A study of 16,690-persons whose results were released today by Medco Health Solutions found that patients taking Plavix (clopidogrel) with a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) like Nexium or Prilosec have a 50% increase in risk of major cardiovascular event and 74% increase in heart attacks compared to people taking Plavix alone. Since Plavix is [...]
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