I’ve never really addressed C.M.E. [Continuing Medical Education] on this blog, but it’s yet another open portal for the pharmaceutical influence on practicing physicians – readily available because C.M.E. is a requirement for licensure. This one was passed on to me by a friend, someone I met at the TMAP Trial in Austin. She sent […]
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot, 1925
Several days ago, I posted a link to AllTrials [the red folder upper left] with gret enthusiasm. I’m still enthusiastic, but as always, there’s a glitch. Cam posted a warning to look at Sense-About-Science on SourceWatch. where he found some problematic funding [Association of the British Pharmaceutial Industry, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer]. Then Annonymous went to the […]
Reading and writing about the early Prozac days this last week has kind of gotten to me. I had read it before some time back in David Healy’s Let Them Eat Prozac, but I knew less then. I didn’t know the context well enough to see that it was such an industry wide story. I […]
I got a bit off track in fleshing out the Akathisia story from the early Prozac days. I found two resources that lay out the narrative using Eli Lilly internal documents – both came from the Bill Forsyth Sr. case that went to trial in 1999 [The Guardian: They said it was safe]: But since […]
AllTrials campaign raises the game on clinical-trial transparency PharmaTimes by Peter Mansell January 10, 2013 The push from the UK for wholesale transparency of clinical-trial data has taken on a new dimension with the launch of the AllTrials public campaign. An accompanying petition – already close to 3,000 over 7,000 signatures at the time of […]
Emergence of Intense Suicidal Preoccupation During Fluoxetine Treatment by Martin H. Teicher, M.D., Ph.D., Carol Glod, R.N., M.S.C.S., and Jonathan O. Cole, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry. 1990 147:207-210. [full text on-line] Six depressed patients free of recent serious suicidal ideation developed intense, violent suicidal preoccupation after 2-7 weeks of fluoxetine treatment. This state persisted […]
The Eli Lilly documents I mentioned in the last post [foul…] have quite a history indeed. Little wonder I said, "I got really lost following the timeline and their exact path from sealed documents into the public domain, and promise to try to get that in order soon." Dr. Peter Breggin had the first shot […]
Pharmagossip has a post up that links to a post by Peter Breggin about some discovery documents from Eli Lilly in a time when the world was young. This from Dr. Breggin: The sealed Prozac data from Eli Lilly also came from my investigations of the company as a medical expert in product liability suits. […]
I don’t know much about Depakote. I see a lot of patients who announce, "I’m Bipolar" or "I’ve been told I’m Bipolar" but the overwhelming majority have neither the clinical narrative nor the family history to support that diagnosis. I do my best not to bludgeon them with my skepticism, but taper them off of […]