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From the monthly archives: January 2009
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 [...]
OK, enough of gods, goddesses, cardiologists and the beings that they impregnate. Those cardiologists will never listen to me any way. Soon everyone over 50 will be on a statin! Anyway, back to the humble world of emotion, psychiatry, and the question of…
…will you be my friend?
That’s right, folks, facebook time. And blogging. [...]
Based on the results of the Jupiter Study, that a biomarker of heart disease, C-reactive Protein (CRP), predicts response to the drug Crestor (rosuvastatin) (and not just total cholesterol or LDL cholesterol), the authors of this study would apparently like us to come to the conclusion that, basically, all of us should be on a statin medication for the prevention of heart disease. In fact, I can already hear the shills and the media saying “revolutionary” and “likely to change practice”!
That’s a translation into person speak from a letter I got today from Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals that started out with “Dear Healthcare Professional” and went on to their new “black box warning” for their antibiotic drugs Avelox (moxifloxacin hydrochloride) and Cipro (ciprofloxacin). Here is their warning:
Fluoroquinolones, including Avelox/Cipro, are associated with an increased risk [...]
The results of the “A Phase III Research Study of Female Sexual Dysfunction in Women on Testosterone Patch without Estrogen (APHRODITE)” study published in the NEJM today showed that if post-menopausal women who have a loss of libido put a testosterone patch on their arms that they will have satisfying sex once a month more than they are currently having, although there may be a risk of breast cancer or cardiovascular disease
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) recently started a TV ad for their drug Abilify (aripiprazole) which has gotten a lot of people in a tizzy prompting me to look closer at this new claim for a psychiatric drug. First of all, I previously gave honorable mention to Abilify as one of the medications with the [...]
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of children on prescription medications in the last few years, as Liz Szabo wrote today in USA Today “Number of kids on medication jumps alarmingly: Most of the illnesses related to obesity”. From 2002-2005 there was a doubling of kids on prescription medications for Type [...]
I am trying to move this blog to WordPress. The new feed is
http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/index.php/feed/
I thought I was stupid but there are a lot of problems using WordPress on yahoo hosting.
The older posts are at:
http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/blog.html
New posts will be at
http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/index.php
Any problems or feedback appreciated.
Doug Bremner
A quote from a physician describing the results of study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine on the effects of Zoloft (sertraline) or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or a combination of the two on childhood anxiety disorders, describing the results of the study as “incredible”, lead me to take [...]
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