It’s been a long holiday, frozen here in the Georgia Mountains. Today, there’s a blue sky and balmy weather. I think people around here have had their life-time White Christmas and are ready to put it behind us. I’ve spent my cooped up time with David Healy’s Let Them Eat Prozac, Alison Bass’ Side Effects, […]
So we had a New York Times front page ad for $eroquel XR that says "Adding SEROQUEL XR for depression may help." Down at the bottom it says "Roll-over for MORE Important Safety Information" in small print. As mentioned before in this blog, $eroquel is an Atypical Antipsychotic originally approved by the FDA for the […]
Look-up Tables for the Curious Look up FDA and Patent data by a drug’s proprietary name… Look up clinical trials for drugs according to a variety of parameters… Look up NIH/NIMH Grants using the RePORTER Query form… Look up payments to physicians from pharmaceutical companies in the ProPublica Dollars for Docs database… In a recent […]
Health Watch: Doctors and Drug Companies FOX 5 Atlanta By BETH GALVIN 29 Dec 2010 Nearly 20 percent of American doctors get paid by drug companies to be consultants or speakers. And in some cases, they’re making quite a lot of money. So does that influence the decisions your doctor makes about your care? "Here […]
The figure above is the Case-Shiller Housing Index from a blog on December 30th, 2008. It depicts the rapid escalation of housing prices we call the housing bubble peaking in 2005, then plummeting. Besides the obvious bubble, there are two other things to note on this graph. First, the Case-Shiller Housing Index is adjusted for […]
from The Bureau of Labor Statistics
Well, the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry winds up again on January 18 with a list of recalled [and new] witnesses. The Chilcot panel is under a lot of pressure since the revelation [in the Wikileaks] that the U.K. Foreign Office assured the U.S. that the Inquiry would "protect" the U.S. The ball’s in their court to […]
If you live long enough, it’ll happen – a White Christmas in Georgia…
seasons greetings…