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I was attracted to The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg by Doug Bremner because it is the story of the psychiatrist who took down Accutane. You know, that [...]
Normal brain on the left, brain of NFL player John Grimsley in the middle, and a boxer on the right. The two right images show the dark tau staining brain matter seen in CTE.
The National Hockey League (NHL) continues to put making money over player safety in stonewalling over the growing number [...]
The new ebook Roaccutane: The Truth, by Stefan Lay of Norwich, United Kingdom, offers an honest and informative view from a patient’s (or should we say victim?) perspective on the side effects of the acne drug Accutane (Roaccutane in the UK and Europe, generic isotretinoin) which I have
Charles Bishop crashed this plane into a building in Tampa after becoming suicidal and psychotic while on Accutane
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 [...]
What people are saying about The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane – the truth that had to be told.
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Get The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg released by Night Publishing here for $2.99 and at select times free as an ebook via the Lucky@Night offers. Read Chapter 1 here.
Accutane – the truth that had to be told.
In 2001 Hoffman-La Roche’s drug Accutane was [...]
Just when I thought there was nothing fun to write about in the field of academic medicine an email surfaced expressing outrage about an editorial in the February 2011 edition of Surgery News. Youcan access the pdf here but don’t expect to find the article because it has been replaced by a comment that it [...]
I am giving 3 talks @ Tucson 10/22 ‘Freud Meets Buddha’ mindfulness treatment of PTSD, depression and heart disease, and ‘Before You Take That Pill’ – focus on psychotropic meds. Click here to register.
A couple of months ago I wrote in my post “Another One Bites the Dust” about Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy dying at 33 from a combination of different prescription medications, including hydrocodone, acetominophen, methamphetamine, and chlorpheniramal. That was just one more to drop, after the death of socialite and Johnson & Johnson family heiress [...]
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