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Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good MorningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Welcome to the working week, although for some, the routine got under way last night, when an embargo was broken on the release of the Arbiter study (our post is just above this one). In any event, a new day of deadlines and meetings beckons, so on with the show. Grab a cup of something stimulating and dig in. Have a nice one… UK Tries To Improve Manufacturing Efficiency (PharmaTimes) Glaxo And Nabi Ink Deal For Anti-Smoking Vaccine (Associated Press) Bristol-Myers To Split Off Mead Johnson (Associated Press) Boehringer’s Sex Pill Boosted Female Libidos (Bloomberg News) Glenmark And Medicis Strike Licensing Pac...
Source: Pharmalot - November 16, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Anti-Smoking Vaccine Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol Myers Squibb GlaxoSmithKline Glenmark Mead Johnson Medicis Nabi Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs

Which Drugs Increase the Risk of Falling for the ElderlyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries for adults sixty-five and older, and research suggests that those taking four or more medications are at an even greater risk than those who don’t—perhaps two to three times greater. -- Susan Blalock, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.....Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Editor I am always worried that my mother might fall and injure herself -- or worse. Research studies indicate that falling is a leading cause of injury deaths for people 65 and older -- see Falls Among Older Adults: An Overview. More than one third of adults 65 and older fall each...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 15, 2009 Category: Dementia Authors: Tags: Wellbutrin elderly alzheimer's anti-psychotic-drugs falling risk dementia Celexa Prozac Effexor Risperdal Source Type: blogs

Charles ‘Chuck’ Nemeroff lands on his feetEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chuck Nemeroff, the controversial former Emory University psychiatry department chair, has been named chair of the psychiatry department at the University of Miami School of Medicine – has the man got no shame? It was only October last year that Chuck was forced to resign from Brown University. Phil Dawdy at Furious Seasons summed it up like this: A few of you have probably already caught the news elsewhere: yesterday, Charles Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at Emory University. The move came on the heels of revelations that he’d taken in $2.8 million in pharma consulting monies since 2000, ...
Source: seroxat secrets... - November 13, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Glaxo Paxil Seroxat Source Type: blogs

Armistice Day, 2009: Bring 'em HomeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is an exact repeat of a post one year ago today. Except for this preamble about how disgusted we are that we have to repeat it: The Reveres, November 11, 2009, year six of the War in Iraq and year eight of the War in Afghanistan Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - November 11, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Seafood Selection and Your HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In recent years, the fear of too much mercury from fish has been instilled in us. Pregnant mothers and children are urged to limit their tuna consumption, and there are always new reports on which fish are safe to eat and which are not. The Environmental Defense Fund has a very handy seafood selector on its website (http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521) that lists the safest and most harmful fish, sushi choices, health guides, and even printable pocket guides. According to the EDF, the safest foods are pink shrimp from Oregon, wild Alaskan salmon, and farmed rainbow trout. The worst offenders are Chilean sea bass and va...
Source: Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog - November 10, 2009 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Sergey Kalitenko MD Tags: Antiaging Do you know General health Anti-aging fish Food Source Type: blogs

Anaerobic Parasitic ProtozoaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anaerobic parasitic protozoa cause medically and economically important diseases such as dysentery, sexually transmitted infections, and gastroenteritis that affect millions of people worldwide annually. Recently the genomes of the three key anaerobic protozoa, Trichomonas, Giardia and Entamoeba, have been determined. The availability of these genomic data and the use of post-genomic analyses have provided fascinating new insights into the biology of these important parasites. They will be important for the design of novel anti-protozoan drugs and the development of effective vaccines.from Anaerobic Parasitic Protozoa: Gen...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 5, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Anaerobic protozoa Gastroenteritis Anti-protozoan drugs Parasitic protozoa Dysentery Trichomonas Entamoeba Giardia Source Type: blogs

Silk Pillow Cases Do Not Make You A Sleeping BeautyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Left Brain updates: I created quite a stir in the world of silk pillow cases last year when I tried to answer the question “Are Silk Pillow Cases Good For Your Skin? (Follow the link for the original post and all the entertaining comments.) Silk from a sow’s ear? According to the ASA (the UK organization that enforces British advertising laws) it looks like I was right. Cosmeticsdesign reports that they have ruled that Direct Beauty Products have not adequately supported their advertising claims that their silk pillow cases have anti-aging properties. A key issue was the lack of support for minimizing w...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - November 4, 2009 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Left Brain Tags: Anti-aging Questions silk pillow cases Source Type: blogs

Timothy Dinan, Lundbeck and drug marketingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I wonder how much money Timothy Dinan has been by paid by Lundbeck in the past 10 years? Currently Tim is a Faculty member of the ‘The Lundbeck Institute’. On the payroll of any other pharma companies, Tim? Conflict of interest Tim? (Source: seroxat secrets...)
Source: seroxat secrets... - November 1, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Source Type: blogs

How can the ‘great and the good’ of Irish psychiatry get it so wrong…Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a letter to the Irish Times, the ‘great and the good’ [my irony] of Irish psychiatry wade in to the Shane Clancy case (detail here) to sort out a few misunderstandings for us mere mortals (and Dr Michael Corry) who they think know nothing… “…A controversial statement has been made … namely that antidepressants cause homicide, which we wish to rebut…” “…There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that antidepressants cause homicide…” “…the erroneous belief that antidepressants induce aggression and homicide…” “…thos...
Source: seroxat secrets... - November 1, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Paxil Source Type: blogs

Battle for Libertarian Voters in VirginiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Almost two months ago I quoted a Washington Post op-ed that said that this fall’s gubernatorial race in Virginia would depend on the all-important independent voters — the disproportionately moderate, young, prosperous, suburban and libertarian-leaning people who typically decide Virginia contests. It looks like Frank B. Atkinson, a high-powered Richmond lawyer who served in the Ronald Reagan and George Allen administrations and has written two books on Virginia politics, knew what he was talking about. At least on my television here in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., the race has been dominated by two kinds...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 31, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Boaz Tags: General Government and Politics Political Philosophy anti-gay bob mcdonnell creigh deeds libertarian libertarian vote taxes Source Type: blogs

Wisdom of the Anti-FederalistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Everybody reads the Federalist Papers. (I hope!) Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, they are generally regarded as the most profound collection of political theory ever written in America. And since they deeply inform our understanding of our fundamental law, they are essential to understanding the American version of limited, constitutional government. But the ratification of the Constitution was a close thing in 1787–89, and the Anti-Federalists (who said that actually they were the federalists, while their opponents were nationalists) also had some insightful things to say about liberty and l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 30, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Boaz Tags: Cato Publications Law and Civil Liberties Political Philosophy anti-federalists Constitution federalist papers Source Type: blogs

Bleak Britain: Anti-depressant prescriptions soar even though illness declinesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How can this be? I’d say there are two main reasons: In the UK (and most countries) the Government is happy to buy huge amounts of expensive drugs from big pharma and by prescribing them, at least something is being seen to be done – boxes can be ticked, ‘treatment’ targets delivered. The problem is that there is no money left to employ counsellors – research by five mental health charities found depressed patients were having wait for six to 18 months to get an appointment with an NHS counsellor… and this against a background of previous studies that have shown psychological therapies c...
Source: seroxat secrets... - October 24, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Source Type: blogs

Twin Study offers Some Tips on AgingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, divorce and antidepressant use associated with a significantly older appearance. Interestingly in twins who were less than 40 years old, the heavier twin was perceived as being older, while in those groups over 40 years old, the heavier twin appeared younger. Watch the video clip (after the ad) from the LA Station about this new study, factors such as smoking, sun exposure, stress and dieting play a role in the aging process. Factors affecting Aging: Divorce Stress Sun Exposure Smoking Alcohol use Weight Gain – varies depending on the age You can watch another report from ABC news at their website. ...
Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 - October 24, 2009 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Dr.Dyer Tags: Health Health News Weight Management Wellness Anti-aging Lifestyle Choices Smoking and Aging Stress Management Successful Aging Sun Exposure Source Type: blogs

Alert the Media!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Okay, fine, it’s not exactly media-worthy, but it is Big News in our house. News worthy of Capital Letters. You see, my husband has been able to settle my 15-month-old back to sleep THREE TIMES over the last several nights! Image by Sanja Gjenero My husband is a great father and very good with the kids, so it should not be quite so newsworthy, except my other daughters refused to be settled back to sleep by anyone other than me (and my mum-mums) until they were over two-and-a-half years old! So the fact that my husband was able to settle our third daughter at the tender age of 15 months is amazing and gratefully rece...
Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3 - October 21, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor Tags: sleep anti-CIO co-sleeping Parenting sleeping through the night toddler sleep Source Type: blogs

Dr Michael Corry needs your supportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This story is beyond belief…here it is in brief: Shane Clancy is a young guy who stabbed 2 people and murdered another, then stabbed himself to death in a frenzied attack recently in Ireland, his parents blame the SSRI he was taking at the time for his behavior and there has been huge media interest in the story in Ireland. Dr Michael Corry said live on TV that it was likely the SSRI that made Shane Clancy go on the violent rampage. Now it seems that an unnamed ’senior psychiatrist’ has made a ridiculous complaint against Dr Corry: THE Medical Council in Ireland is investigating a complaint regarding psyc...
Source: seroxat secrets... - October 19, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Source Type: blogs

Anti-Smoking Vaccine Goes Up In SmokeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There’s got to be an easier way to kick the habit. Cytos Biotechnology’s anti-smoking vaccine missed its main target in a mid-stage study, making it highly unlikely the product will reach the market, Reuters reports. The vaccine aims to help smokers kick the habit by preventing nicotine from entering the brain, depriving them of the satisfaction many associate with smoking, the news service notes. But the vaccine failed to show a statistically significant difference in continuous abstinence from smoking determined from weeks eight to 12 after start of treatment, compared with a placebo. As a result, the Swiss c...
Source: Pharmalot - October 16, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Anti-Smoking Vaccine Cytos Biotechnology Novartis Vaccines Source Type: blogs

What Would You Do re SpankingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tell me what you would do in this situation. It’s not breastfeeding-related but it falls under the parenting/mothering/discipline topics we talk about here sometimes. Let me set the scene: You are at the zoo with your child(ren). You enter the ladies’ room and watch as another mother hustles into a stall. Photo by Sergio Roberto Bichara Then you hear the mother furiously whispering to her child, “Hold on! Stay still! Be patient! Stop it!” and other things along those lines. You’re not sure what is going on there — perhaps the child is resisting a diaper change; perhaps the child is runni...
Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3 - October 16, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor Tags: mothering anti-spanking corporal punishment gentle discipline positive discipline WWYD Source Type: blogs

Seroxat (Paxil) to blame for baby’s heart defects, American jury rulesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This from Sarah Boseley at the Guardian: A family has been awarded $2.5m (£1.6m) in damages after a jury in Philadelphia decided that the British-made antidepressant Seroxat was responsible for their three-year-old son’s heart defects. GlaxoSmithKline, the British manufacturer of Seroxat, known as Paxil in the US, said it would appeal against the verdict. Although drug regulators in the US and UK warned in 2005 that Seroxat could be linked to heart defects, GSK does not accept its drug is the cause. Thousands of women worldwide have taken antidepressants such as Seroxat in pregnancy, assured by manufacturers and doc...
Source: seroxat secrets... - October 14, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Glaxo Paxil Seroxat Source Type: blogs

An excellent submission to the consultation on statutory regulation of alternative medicine (Pittilo report)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two weeks left to stop the Department of Health making a fool of itself. Email your response to tne Pittilo consultation to this email address HRDListening@dh.gsi.gov.uk I’ve had permission to post a submission that has been sent to the Pittilo consultation. The whole document can be downloaded here. I have removed the name of the author. It is written by the person who has made some excellent contributions to this blog under the pseudonym "Allo V Psycho". The document is a model of clarity, and it ends with constructive suggestions for forms of regulation that will, unlike the Pittilo proposals, really pro...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 13, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anna van der Gaag Anti-science CAM Chinese medicine Department of Health Fair trading HPC Health Professions Council Michael Pittilo Robert Gordon's university TCM Trading Standards Traditional Chinese medicine Univers Source Type: blogs

Influenza PolymeraseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The influenza virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is a heterotrimeric complex (PA, PB1 and PB2) with multiple enzymatic activities for catalyzing viral RNA transcription and replication. Its critical roles in the influenza virus life cycle and high sequence conservation suggest it should be a major target for therapeutic intervention. However, until very recently, functional studies and drug discovery targeting the influenza polymerase have been hampered by the lack of three-dimensional structural information. The influenza polymerase holds prospects for the development of anti-influenza therapeutics.Further reading: Influe...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - October 12, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: RNA transcription and replication Influenza virus life cycle Anti-influenza therapeutics. NA-dependent RNA polymerase Source Type: blogs

Influenza M2 ChannelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Viral ion channels have minimalist architecture. Despite their relatively simple structure, viral channels can achieve highly specific gating and selection of ions, and the particular mechanisms appear to be different from those of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The unique structural and functional properties of viral channels make them ideal targets for antiviral therapy because the molecules that inhibit viral ion channels may not interact with human ion channels. The M2 proton channel of influenza A virus is a model viral ion channel. This small channel, whose pore is formed by four equivalent transmembrane helices, is the...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - October 12, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Viral ion channels Amantadine M2 Channel Adamantane Viral channels Rimantadine Anti-influenza A drugs Source Type: blogs

Nemeroff, Seroquel, and ACCMEEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Roy Poses has discussed the atypical antipsychotic drug Seroquel (quetiapine) several times on this site, pointing out manipulation of clinical research results to enhance the appearance of efficacy, and suppression of studies with unfavorable results. I call this augmenting the marketed profile of the drug. Daniel Carlat has commented on published Seroquel data here and ClinPsych here.AstraZeneca, the marketer of Seroquel, has also been busy with continuing medical education (CME) programs that augment Seroquel’s profile. Last December 8, one such program went on line, aired by the provider CME Outfitters. The program�...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 12, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: ACNP Seroquel atypical anti-psychotics AstraZeneca ACCME Charles Nemeroff quetiapine Emory University Neuropsychopharmacology continuing medical education CME Outfitters Source Type: blogs

RNAi to Treat Chronic Hepatitis B Virus InfectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) occurs in approximately 6% of the world's population and carriers of the virus are at risk for complicating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cirrhosis. Although effective vaccination is available, it is prophylactic and of little use to individuals who are already infected with the virus. Furthermore, current treatment options have limited efficacy and chronic HBV infection is likely to be a significant global medical problem for many years to come. Silencing HBV gene expression by harnessing RNA interference (RNAi) presents an attractive option for development of novel ...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - October 7, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: HBV Anti HBV agents Source Type: blogs

HTLV and HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For many years, retroviruses were known to be the cause of many kinds of animal leukemias and hematopoietic tumors. In spite of the high expectation that this would also be true for humans, very little evidence for retroviral involvement in any human diseases was forthcoming. In the late 1970s, however, due to the development of sensitive and specific molecular methods to identify retroviruses and to produce large scale cultures of T lymphocytes, HTLV-I was discovered and implicated as the cause of adult T cell leukemia, a particular and relatively infrequent leukemia prevalent in southern Japan and parts of the Caribbean,...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - October 5, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Paraparesis HIV-1 aids HTLV-I Anti-retroviral drugs HIV-2 Vaccine trials Source Type: blogs

Farewell ProzacEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here’s a new blog which I hope you may find interesting – it’s an ongoing account of a writer (Anton Vowl) who’s recently taken his last hit of Prozac and walked away from medicating depression after six years of Lexapro, Celexa, Cymbalta and Prozac (thanks to Phil Dawdy for alerting me). Farewell Prozac is very well written and I look forward to following Anton’s journey and wish him all the very best (Source: seroxat secrets...)
Source: seroxat secrets... - October 1, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Depression SSRI Source Type: blogs

Israel, Existential Threats, and the Future of WarEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If aliens from Alpha Centauri were monitoring our airwaves over the last 40 years they would have concluded that Israel is the center of the world. The disproportionate attention to Israel stems from a large confluence of themes, including the historical contribution of the Jews to civilization (Jews will never be forgiven for bringing guilt into the world), the genocidal hatred of their neighbors (who control the oil upon which the world's economy depends), the Middle East as a fulcrum during the Cold War, and a host of other issues too numerous to mention (and impossible to completely convey.) The UN,&#...
Source: ShrinkWrapped - September 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: ShrinkWrapped Tags: Anti-Semitism Intelligence Middle East The Singularity Source Type: blogs

Generics versus Brands: Are They Really the Same?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is a topic that gets scant attention leaving the consuming public largely in the dark. Even though I work in the field, I've not hear this information except from my own reading. Fortunately, SSRIs are not as susceptible to problems crossing from brands to generics or between generics. But buproprion in other forms may not be as good as Wellbutrin. Image via WikipediaMedical News Antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs have become blockbusters for the firms that developed them, making them hot markets for generic competition. Moreover, the effectiveness of these drugs is measured in the same way as anticonvulsants --...
Source: Ψ Dare To Dream... - September 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Anti-Depressant Medication Anti-Psychotic Medication Medications Antidepressant Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor SSRI Source Type: blogs

Baby’s 13-Month Sleep RegressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Now I have no idea whether there is such an “official” thing as a “13-month sleep regression” — a general tendency for babies to wake more frequently at night when they turn about 13 months old, but I am too tired to look into it. My toddler just turned 14 months old and the last month has been a challenge in the (lack of) sleep department. I noticed other mothers mentioning that their toddlers were night-waking more often too, and I am not surprised. There must be a few different factors playing into it. My toddler at almost 14 months In my case I think my toddler is so excited about everyth...
Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3 - September 21, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor Tags: mothering sleep 13-month-old anti-CIO no cry sleep regression teething toddler sleep Source Type: blogs

Apes and AngelsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In January I offered my take on The 10,000 Year Explosion and called it a most A Most Dangerous Book. I suggested that Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending had fired an early salvo in a battle that is going to reshape or destroy our culture, and probably our world, in the next 20-30 years (the time frame is mine.) The book does not aim to solve the "Nature vs Nurture" conundrum but presents evidence from the field of population genetics to support their theory that, contrary to conventional wisdom in evolution and sociology, evolution has been s...
Source: ShrinkWrapped - September 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: ShrinkWrapped Tags: Anti-Semitism Evolution Intelligence Liberalism Post-Modernism Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: Out NowEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If the UK invaded and occupied Massachusetts because the IRA raised money and housed some of its members in South Boston I think most people would say that was not just a mistake but wrong. Assuming for the moment that the GOP was in charge and had no interest in defending the state, I can predict with some confidence that Massachusetts's citizens would fight back (as they did once before) and make it very costly for the British to stay. Logistically how could the British leave without losing face and suffering a crushing geopolitical defeat? The answer is simple: use boats (and now) planes. That's it. And we can do the sa...
Source: Effect Measure - September 6, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Show me the scienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Let’s say there IS a massive conspiracy and coverup. Big Pharma knowingly produces vaccines manufactured with a substance (thimerisol) that causes neurologic or immunologic damage (no one’s completely sure of the mechanism) to some children, who then become autistic. Photo courtesy of Martin Burns (flickr.com) Doctors are complicit in this malpractice: they prescribe and administer vaccines. And nurses ask you to hold the baby while they administer a shot they know could result in a devastating developmental condition. There are people who believe this. But I’m not one of them. You’re not going to m...
Source: Autism Vox - August 29, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jill Cornfield Tags: Junk Science Medicine Vaccines anti-vaccine conspiracy opinion Source Type: blogs

Fish organs for sale!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I suppose a Swedish fish libel would be preferable. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger)
Source: Zackary Sholem Berger - August 24, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: anti-Semitism Source Type: blogs

Fraser Nelson loses the plotEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am grateful to an NHS BLOG DOCTOR reader for pointing me at an article by the normally reliable Fraser Nelson. Fraser has penned an ill-judged and uncharacteristically inaccurate rant about thiomersal (aka thimerasol). One of the two swine-flu immunisations that the government has ordered contains thiomersal. Most of you have probably not heard of it. It is a preservative that has been used in vaccines with great success for over fifty years. Nobody would have heard of it now had a group of parents of autistic children not decided that it was thiomersal that caused their children to develop autism.There is not one jot of...
Source: NHS Blog Doctor - August 17, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: anti-immunisation Swine flu nonsense Jabsloonies thiomersal Source Type: blogs

Professor David Healy meets with the MHRA to talk SSRI withdrawal reactionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Notes of the 26 June 2009 meeting – thanks to Bob Fiddaman at Seroxat Sufferers. I find it unbelievable that all too many GPs still know next to nothing about withdrawal reactions from SSRIs. “Prof Healy considered that there was little evidence available on how to manage patients who had difficulty withdrawing from SSRIs. All agreed that this was a very difficult area to study as the management of the patient would differ depending on the patient.” Maybe if the drug companies would start by admitting there is a problem we could begin to look for some answers. Unfortunately all the drug companies take the...
Source: seroxat secrets... - August 12, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Professor David Healy Source Type: blogs

Why degrees in Chinese medicine are a danger to patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion This selection of slides shows that much of the stuff taught in degrees in herbal medicine poses a real danger to public safety and to public health. Pittilo’s idea that imposing this sort of miseducation will help safety is obviously and dangerously wrong. The Department of Health must reject the Pittilo recommendations on those grounds. Follow-up (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - August 10, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science CAM Cancer act Central Lancashire Chinese medicine Dangerous advice Department of Health Detox Edinburgh Napier University Geoffrey Petts HPC Michael Pittilo Peter Fisher Prince Charles Prince of Wales Source Type: blogs

Seroxat/Paxil – the new Thalidomide? – part 2Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This from Professor David Healy writing in the Guardian today: Doped and duped Adverse effects of widely-prescribed drugs are often overlooked because there is so little truly independent academic evidence Since 2005, the SSRI paroxetine, first marketed by GlaxoSmithKline as Seroxat, has carried warnings of risk of birth defects. In the US litigation in which I have been asked to give evidence, the plaintives will argue that, even before they were launched, there was good laboratory evidence that the SSRIs might cause problems, and, following their initial marketing, evidence emerged over a decade ago from clinical use tha...
Source: seroxat secrets... - August 8, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Paxil Seroxat Source Type: blogs

Seroxat/Paxil – the new Thalidomide?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This from Sarah Boseley at the Guardian: Antidepressants once seen as miracle drugs: now risks are becoming evident US courts to hear claims that insufficient attention was paid to dangers to foetus Since the horror of the Thalidomide scandal in the 1960s, pharmaceutical companies and medicines regulators have been acutely aware of the dangers drugs may pose to the unborn child. Establishing what the effect of a drug may be on a foetus, however, is no simple task. Companies must rely on animal studies in the early stages of research and hope that the drug will behave in humans in the same way. Trials on pregnant women are ...
Source: seroxat secrets... - August 7, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Glaxo Paxil Seroxat Source Type: blogs

How To Keep Your Man: An Anti-Aging PerspectiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Regaining Your Sex-Life Without Resorting To Cheating Sexual problems in a couple’s relationship can result in so much more than breakup. It can cause family problems, money problems, career crush, especially when men resort to finding sexual fulfillment from a prostitute. Take for example, the recent case of Eliot Spitzer, whose sexual antics brought down his career, his family life, his world. But, what causes a married man to go to see a prostitute? From the anti-aging point of view, this phenomenon can be explained as follows: after a certain age men’s sex hormone testosterone level starts declining, resulting in d...
Source: Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog - August 7, 2009 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: editor Tags: Antiaging Do you know General health Hormones Anti-aging Sex life Source Type: blogs

Rewriting the Psychiatrist’s BibleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On the radio in the UK tonight – BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 4 August, 20.00 Afterwards it’ll be available via BBC iPlayer. Matthew Hill investigates the links between psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry. Should there be increased transparency over top psychiatrists’ links to the industry? He looks at the influence of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM), produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), which has been heavily criticised in the past for a lack of transparency between the panel members and pharmaceutical companies. Matthew also examines the ‘...
Source: seroxat secrets... - August 4, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Source Type: blogs

Simon Singh on chiropractic: “Beware the spinal trap”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jump to follow-up Today, 29 July 2009, a large number of magazines and blogs will publish simultaneously Simon Singh’s article. The Guardian was forced to withdraw it, but what he said must be heard (even if the word ‘bogus’ is now missing). This is an edited version if the article in the Guardian that resulted in the decision of the British Chiropractic Association to sue Singh for libel. That decision was bad for Singh, though its effects could yet be good for the rest of the world, Firstly the decision to use law rather than rational argument stands a good chance of destroying chiropractic entirely bec...
Source: DC's goodscience - July 28, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Anti-science British Chiropractic Association General Chiropractic Council badscience business chiropractor defamation alternative medicine antiscience Simon Singh Source Type: blogs

Chinese medicine -acupuncture gobbledygook revealedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Acupuncture has been in the news since, in a moment of madness, NICE gave it some credence, Some people still seem to think that acupuncture is somehow more respectable than, say, homeopathy and crystal healing. If you think that, read Barker Bausell’s book ot Trick or Treatment. It is now absolutely clear that ‘real’ acupuncture is indistinguishable from sham, whether the sham control uses retractable needles, or real needles in the ‘wrong’ places. There has been no clear demonstration of long-lived benefits in any condition, and it is likely that it is no more than a theatrical placebo. In ...
Source: DC's goodscience - July 24, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science Central Lancashire Chinese medicine Department of Health NICE Pittilo Robert Gordon's university Salford Traditional Chinese medicine Universities University of Central Lancashire University of Salford Unive Source Type: blogs

Diabetes Research NewsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here’s some exciting news for diabetics. In fact, the more I read about diabetes treatment these days, the more excited I become. A group of researchers took non-obese diabetic mice which had recently developed Type 1 diabetes, and injected them with an “anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody for five days, followed by transplantation of embryonic pancreatic tissue, and, for short-term glucose control, implantation of a subcutaneous insulin pellet.” Most of the mice maintained normal blood sugars after the removal of the insulin pellet. The transplanted cells were shown to migrate to the pancreas of the test subje...
Source: A Hearty Life - July 19, 2009 Category: Nurses Authors: Cherie Burbach Tags: Diseases & Conditions anti CD# monoclonal antibody diabetes research find a cure for diabetes reverse type 1 diabetes Source Type: blogs

Depressed ABN Amro banker who could not live with his shameEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A sad ending to the story I wrote about a few days ago. This from The Independent: When Huibert Boumeester left his home in Belgravia last Monday morning, it was supposed to have been to attend an appointment to start rebuilding a once-glittering banking career. After three months out of work while battling depression, he was due to discuss his options with a City headhunting agency. But rather than head to the Square Mile, the multimillionaire former chief financial officer of Dutch bank ABN Amro, philanthropist and country sports enthusiast climbed into his dark blue Range Rover together with two of the six shotguns h...
Source: seroxat secrets... - June 30, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Depression Suicide Source Type: blogs

Michael Jackson took Paxil (Seroxat) as part of his deadly drug cocktailEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I think Michael Jackson’s ‘Doctor’ has a lot to answer for… This from the Sun: THE deadly drug cocktail taken daily by King of Pop Michael Jackson is revealed for the first time by The Sun today. The shock list emerged as police probing an injection which preceded the star’s tragic death spoke with a doctor last night. Jacko, 50, was taking up to THREE powerful narcotic pain relievers at the same time — when any more than one is deemed potentially fatal. Sources close to the singer’s entourage said he was injected three times a day with Demerol – the potent painkiller given to him before...
Source: seroxat secrets... - June 28, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Paxil Seroxat Source Type: blogs

Overdose of prescription drugs may have killed Michael JacksonEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Michael Jackson was on antidepressants? This from the Kansas City Star: Life & Style reports that Michael Jackson was taking a cocktail of up to seven prescription drugs in the months before his death. The star had been taking prescription painkillers including anti-depressant drugs Xanax, Zoloft and painkiller Demerol in recent months, sources close to Jackson told Life & Style. The insider close to the star said he took a suspected overdose of drugs on Thursday morning, which caused respiratory and cardiac arrest. And a Jackson family lawyer told CNN he “feared” the drugs could kill the pop star. CNN&...
Source: seroxat secrets... - June 26, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Depression SSRI Source Type: blogs

More make-believe from the University of Westminster. This time it’s NaturopathyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here is a short break from the astonishing festival of chiropractic that has followed the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) v Simon Singh defamation case, and the absurd NICE guidance on low back pain. Singh’s statement already has over 10000 signatories, many very distinguished, Sign it now if you haven’t already. And getting on for 600 separate complaints about exaggerated and false claims by chiropractors have been lodged with the General Chiropractic Council and with Trading Standards offices. Click to sign The BCA has exposed the baselessness of most of chiropractic’s claims m...
Source: DC's Improbable Science - June 25, 2009 Category: Pharmacists and Pharmacologists Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science British Chiropractic Association CAM Dangerous advice Freedom of speech General Chiropractic Council Geoffrey Petts Quality assessment Universities University of Westminster Westminster university antioxidant Source Type: blogs

Depressed ABN Amro banker vanishes with two shotgunsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This from Justin Davenport writing for the London Evening Standard. A high flying banker who lost his City job in the credit crunch has gone missing armed with two shotguns. Police today issued an urgent appeal to trace Huibert Boumeester, 49, a wealthy financier with homes in London and an estate in Scotland. They said they were extremely concerned for his welfare and urged anyone who sees him to call 999. Police say Mr Boumeester, a father of two, had recently lost his job in the City and was known to be depressed. Recent records show that he is on the board of the Dutch banking group ABN Amro and a number of other City ...
Source: seroxat secrets... - June 25, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Source Type: blogs

Antidepressant use soars as the recession bitesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This from Jamie Doward at The Observer: Fears the recession is affecting the mental health of the nation appear to be borne out by new figures that show prescriptions of antidepressants are soaring. Last year in England there were 2.1m more prescriptions of antidepressants than in 2007, leading to concerns that doctors are increasingly supplying the drugs as a “quick fix” without attempting to address the underlying cause of the problems. In total, 36m prescriptions were given out, an increase of 24% over the past five years. “The increase in the number of people being prescribed antidepressants is deeply...
Source: seroxat secrets... - June 24, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Big Pharma Drug Marketing Source Type: blogs

Vacations and multiple sclerosisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Greetings! I offer my apologies for not being around much last week. It wasn’t for lack of trying, rather due to lack of Internet access. I spent last week in the beautiful land of Yellowstone National Park! I was not vacationing, rather spending the week consulting and training chefs at various lodges in the park. It was grueling and I certainly wish that I had refilled my prescription for anti-fatigue meds prior to the trip! It is also absolutely stunning in its beauty. As I mentioned before, there was no Internet access in the park, save for a faint Wi-Fi signal outside the employee dorms which just wasn’t s...
Source: Life with MS - June 22, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Lifestyle MS MS blog MS community MS lifestyle anti-fatigue pill chefs Everyday Health handicapp Life with MS long trip multiple sclerosis blog multiple sclerosis community National Park online support summer summer vacatio Source Type: blogs

“United States”: Singular Noun, or Plural?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Paul Starobin, the author of an informative primer on foreign policy realism, had an interesting piece in the weekend’s Wall Street Journal on the topic of breaking up the United States. Devolved America is a vision faithful both to certain postindustrial realities as well as to the pluralistic heart of the American political tradition—a tradition that has been betrayed by the creeping centralization of power in Washington over the decades but may yet reassert itself as an animating spirit for the future. Consider this proposition: America of the 21st century, propelled by currents of modernity that tend to favor t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Justin Logan Tags: Foreign Policy and National Security Government and Politics Political Philosophy american experiment anti federalist centralization devolved federal government modernity patrick henry paul starobin realism republicanism secessio Source Type: blogs