“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

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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
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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