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November 28/09 –
 Big pharma beaten

November 19/09 –
 Birth defects caused by medications avoidable: study

November 19/09 –
 Pediatric Zyprexa brochures embarrass British health service

November 16/09 –
Pfizer VP appointment to Canadian Institutes of Health Research a clear conflict of interest >>

November 13/09 –
 Chemical restraints killing dementia patients

November 13/09 –
 US Senator wants Pentagon to review antidepressants

November 11/09 –
 Big pharma's crime spree: Pfizer broke the law by promoting drugs for unapproved uses

November 11/09 –
Pregnant women risk early delivery from using psychiatric medication >>

October 29/09 –
 Compromised care: psychotropic drugs given to nursing home patients without cause

October 29/09 –
 Weight gain associated with antipsychotic drugs

October 29/09 –
 Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials?

October 27/09 –
 Bleak Britain: anti-depressant prescriptions soar even though illness declines

October 27/09 –
 SSRIs & Withdrawal/ Dependence

October 22/09 –
 3/4 of the donations to the largest mental health organization in the US come from drug companies

October 20/09 –Pharmalot blog added More…

October 15/09 – Do depressed people really have a chemical imbalance in the brain?

October 15/09 –The Cochrane Library added More…

October 13/09 – Paxil on trial — read the court transcripts

October 13/09 –Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter added More…

October 12/09 – GSK is sued in US over alleged link of paroxetine to birth defects

October 9/09 – Insomnia drugs could lead to sleepwalking

October 9/09 –Drug Product Database Online Query — more complete descriptions of drugs, their use, contraindications and potential risks

October 9/09 –Drugs associated with more suicidal ideations are also associated with more suicide attempts (PDF–226KB)

October 1/09 –The tide is turning against pharmaceutical ads (.DOC–837KB)

September 22/09 – Pharma's clout weakens care

September 22/09 – Document details plan to promote costly drug

September 22/09 – Glaxo linked birth defect of fetus to Paxil, ex-executive says

August 10/09 – Feds hit Pfizer with a $2.3 billion fine

August 10/09 – Doped and duped

August 10/09 – Women given antidepressant that can cause birth defects

August 10/09 – Antidepressants once seen as miracle drugs: now risks are becoming evident

July 9/09 – Increase in use of antipsychotic drugs among Canadian seniors

July 8/09 – Interpreting antidepressant clinical trials

July 8/09 – Antidepressant use linked to bone loss

July 2/09 – Antipsychotic drug use spiralling in kids, research says

June 17/09 – Sudden death and use of stimulant medications in youths

June 8/09 – Prescription Opiate - Talk Tape on CBC's “The Current” (you'll need to scroll down the page to view Part 2)

June 8/09 – Meltdown in the drug industry

June 8/09 – New study: antidepressants commonly prescribed with Tamoxifen put women at much higher risk for recurrent breast cancer

June 8/09 – APA 2009: atypical antipsychotics linked to rapid, adverse metabolic changes in children

June 1/09 – Psychiatric Drugs Might Raise Cardiac Death Risk

May 28/09 –Legal loophole exposes Canadians to drug advertising banned in US: UBC research

“A legal loophole is counteracting Canada's ban on direct-to-consumer drug advertising and has exposed Canadians to more than $90 million worth of ads, including those for drugs with life-threatening risks, according to a study by UBC researchers.”

March 27/09 – Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers

March 27/09 – Prescription sales rise by $1.2-billion, even as generics gain popularity

March 18/09 – A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar

March 6/09 – Important Ruling - Patients in the US who have been harmed by drugs can continue to sue for damages!

February 6/09 – Metabolic monitoring in patients prescribed antipsychotics abysmal

January 29/09 – Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter's Killer—the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies (book review)

January 23/09 – Eli Lilly to pay largest settlement in history over Zyprexa marketing tactics

January 4/09 – Alzheimer's drugs nearly double death risk in elderly: study

January 4/09 – Bitter Pill: A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.”

November 27/08 – Proceedings from “Adverse Reactions to Drugs: What is Our Responsibility?” by Sara Bostock (PDF–32KB)

November 19/08 – Use of antipsychotics in children is criticized

November 18/08 – One-third of Asthma Cases not Asthma: study

November 17/08 – The epidemic of overmedication

November 17/08 – Prescription drugs kill 300 percent more Americans than illegal drugs

November 15/08 – Big Bucks, Big Pharma: marketing disease and pushing drugs (YouTube video)

November 15/08 – Drugged-out seniors a prescription for disaster

October 3/08 – CanWest Global’s campaign to allow dangerous prescription drug advertising (YouTube video)

October 3/08 – Top psychiatrist failed to report drug income

September 26/08 – Antidepressants may harm male fertility

September 26/08 – B.C. Health minister won’t prevent gifts going to doctors

September 21/08 – Secondary effects of antipsychotics: women at greater risk than men

September 18/08 – >>

September 16/08 – Nanaimo: prescription drug abuse grows

September 11/08 – Drugs and the elderly in Canadian nursing homes

September 11/08 – 2004 report states 5/6 elderly taking prescription drugs in the US

August 28/08 – Drug safety warnings ineffective in decreasing antipsychotic prescriptions for the elderly in Canada

August 26/08 – Stanford to limit drug maker financing

August 26/08 – Drug Companies and Schizophrenia: unbridled capitalism meets madness (PDF–324KB)

August 22/08 – Don’t become a victim of medical marketing

August 15/08 – Ending the Love affair between big pharma and the medical profession

August 1/08 – Pill Pushers: pharmaceutical marketing in an overmedicated nation

July 31/08 – Trucker's Death uncovers drug in herbal remedy

July 12/08 – American Psychiatric Association Faces scrutiny for drug company ties

June 23/08 – The accuracy of psychiatric medication advertisements in medical journals

June 23/08 – Grassley probes Paxil suicide risk

June 21/08 – Britain’s Child victims of the chemical Cosh

June 18/08 – Non drug treatments for attention deficit disorder gaining credibility

June 18/08 – Drug Companies hide information on serious risks of antidepressants (video)

June 17/08 – Paxil suicide data should be investigated, Grassley says

June 16/08 –Legal Drugs kill far more than illegal, Florida says

June 10/08 –Researchers fail to reveal full drug pay

June 5/08 –Persistent sexual dysfunction after discontinuation of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

May 29/08 – Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group Condemns government recommendation to scrap drug safety watchdog (PDF–15KB)

May 29/08 –Highly-lauded drug assessment program under attack; (PDF)

May 29/08 – Current prescriptions of psychotropic drugs are irrational for the patients but very rational for the big pharma

May 29/08 – Life saving drug watchdog may be scrapped

Mar. 13/08 – Uncomfortably Numb (Excerpted from A Brief History of Anxiety)

Mar. 9/08 – Marketing Overdose is a short video series about how drug companies unethically promote drugs to the public, doctors and via patient groups.

Mar. 4/08 – Drug Firms pressed on secret pill data

Feb. 27/08 – Drug Giants warned: tell the truth on medicines

Feb. 26/08 – Anti-depressants’ ‘little effect’

Jan. 31/08 – A Pill for every ill — or an ill for every pill?

Jan. 17/08 – Researchers find a bias toward upbeat findings on antidepressants

Jan. 15/08 – The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An epidemic in 26 letters (new book)

Jan. 8/08 – The Medicated Child: PBS takes on pharma
Preview Video

Jan. 3/08 – Warning: drug ads can make you sick

Dec. 19/07 –SSRI antidepressants linked to most school shootings

Dec. 18/07 – Dangerous drugs continue to be prescribed to seniors: CBC report

Dec. 7/07 – Reported suicides—more than 80 percent got psychiatric drugs; well over 50 percent got antidepressants

Dec. 7/07 – Prescription abuse seen in U.S. nursing homes

Dec. 7/07 – Exercise pill hope for depression

Dec. 7/07 – No proof for imbalance of Serotonin in the brain in depression (PDF)

Dec. 7/07 – Older women on tranquillisers are major road risk

Nov. 17/07 – WorstPills.org Reliable, objective, evidence-based and authoritative guide to prescription drugs (subscription-based)

Nov. 13/07 – Drugs for ADHD ‘not the answer’

Nov. 7/07 – Antidepressant use during pregnancy increases risk to infants: study

Nov. 7/07 – Antipsychotic drug use and mortality in older adults with dementia

Nov. 7/07 – World experts demand end to child drugging in the US Part IPart II

Nov. 7/07 – Rethinking models of psychotropic drug action

Nov. 6/07 – Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing disease & pushing drugs

Oct. 7/07 – OxyContin Drug company sued for millions

Aug. 1/07 –Seniors popping pills despite warnings

Aug./07 –Alcohol use and anxiety

July 22/07 –Australia in legal drug abuse crisis

July 17/07 –Class action filed for users of Sleepees

July 13/07 –Drug prescribing for elderly called in calamitous state

July 10/07 – Prescription for Injury—book by Colin Downes-Grainger

July 10/07 –Elderly patients get hooked on sleeping pills

June 13/07 –Benzos & acid reflux

June 3/07 –Elderly doctors & drug-prescribing

May 23/07 –Benzodiazepine Dependency cause for concern in Quebec senior population

May 18/07 – The role of the pharmaceutical companies in the treatment of mental ill health (Dr. Heather Ashton speech)

Mar. 29/07 –Bipolar Treatment comes into question

Apr. 28/07 –U.S. wonders if Zyprexa drug data was accurate

Apr. 26/07 –Pharma greed gone mad?

Apr. 5/07 –Neuroleptics—dangerous in Alzheimer’s?

March 21/07 –Prominent Psychiatrist forced to finally concede that psychiatric diagnoses are not based on science

March 14/07 –Sleeping aids may trigger allergic reactions, dangerous behaviour

March 2/07 –Warning issued over drug [Effexor]

Jan. 12/07 –Suicide rates in hospitals ‘very high’

Dec. 18/06 –Zyprexa sales rep video –a must-see!

Dec. 13/06 –Health Canada issues warning for sleep supplement

Dec. 7/06 –Do SSRI antidepressants lead to an increase in violent behaviour?

Dec. 5/06 –SSRI Experts head to Washington to testify before FDA panel

Sept./06 –Anti-depressants and violence: problcites at the interface of medicine and law

Sept./06 –Anti-depressant drugs linked to increased risk of death for heart patients

Aug. 26/06 –Antidepressants during pregnancy may affect baby

2006 –Strategies for discontinuing long-term Benzodiazepine use

Aug. 8/06 –Some say ending antidepressants daunting

July 11/06 –Financial ties to industry cloud depression study

July/06 –Do anti-depressants cure or create abnormal brain states?

June/06 – Statement by school social worker about psychiatric drugs & children

June 30/06 –STAR*D Wars: The corruption of the NIMH and the failure of anti- depressants

June/06 – SSRI disaster stories

May 13/06 – “Prescribed to Death”  wins top award for investigative journalism in Canada

May 8/06 –New pharma ad rules result in more ads

May 18/06 – Users of popular sleep aid report problems at night >>

May/06 –US: selling to the worried well

May 8/06 –Doctors say drugmakers are ‘disease-mongering’ to boost sales

May 1/06 –Elderly at risk using mood drugs

Mar.-Apr./06 –Trends in prescribing of antipsychotic medications for US children

Spring 2006 –Survey finds drugs often prescribed incorrectly

Mar.23/06 – Sleep deprivation: the great American myth  >>

Feb. 7/06 –Record sales of sleeping pills are causing worries

Feb. 6/06 –Prescription drug death toll rising…women are dying in greater numbers from prescription drug overdoses than from street drugs such as cocaine and heroin

Jan. 12/06 –Antidepressant madness strikes baseball pitcher Jeff Reardon

Dec. 8/05 – CBC Radio’s investigative report on “Canada’s prescription drug problem,” Focusing on Benzodiazepines

Nov. 17/05 –Many kids taking sleeping pills

Nov. 14/05 –“Bitter Pills” do the new anti-depressants work? and are they worth the risk?

Nov. 11/05 –Sedatives risk fears for elderly

Nov. 8/05 –Ads for SSRI antidepressants are misleading, say researchers

Oct. 26/05 –U.S. Alters test policy on psychiatric drugs, FDA won’t require 6-month studies

Oct. 20/05 –Big pharma’s calling the shots

July 8/05 –Prescribed to death

June 17/05 – Benzodiazepines increase symptoms of restless legs syndrome.

May/05 – Women and Health Protection releases new paper on SSRIs (PDF)

May/05 –Are Medical journals laundering information for pharmaceutical companies?

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