Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related
January 23, 2023 | 3 Comments

In some of the comments after the last post, POGO mentioned that Josef Witt-Doerring has done two interviews with me so far and posted them on his site. The Risks of Antidepressants  and Antidepressants and Mass Shootings/Murder Suicide: An interview has also appeared on Demystifying Science podcast with  Anastasia & Michael Shilo The Podcast called […]

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Clinical Trial Fraud
June 28, 2021 | 13 Comments

This is part two of Johanna Ryan’s posts on Ghosts in the Clinical Trial Machine or Clinical Trial Fraud.  Last weeks post reported on how doctors in three states have been convicted of handing in fake clinical-trial results from fake patients.  This week we’ll examine how small-time crooks like these ended up doing world-class medical […]

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Ghosts in the Clinical Trial Machine
June 21, 2021 | 18 Comments

This is the first part of a two part series on clinical trial fraud from Johanna Ryan, with part 2 next week.  Jo is RxISK’s clinical trial and shoddy clinical practice sleuth – see The Maintenance Man.   Recently the U.S. Department of Justice called attention to a small but worrisome crime wave.  Health care fraud […]

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Antidepressants: Education and Disability Certificates
March 22, 2021 | 38 Comments

This post covers difficulties primarily on antidepressants that medicines can cause to people in schools or universities who end up unable to study or do course-work, as well as the difficulties people can have trying to get off medicines, a process that can be pretty disabling. The materials linked to this post are being put […]

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Snakes in a Love Drug 2
March 29, 2020 | 4 Comments

This image is widely viewed as a symbol of medicine.  Many, particularly in America, owing to a bad mistake by the American Medical Association, would identify it as the Rod of Aesclepius, a healer in Ancient Greece. But its not a symbol of medicine – as it used to be at least – its the […]

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Snakes in a Love Drug on St Patricks Day
March 17, 2020 | 8 Comments

IJME In recent years the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics has been to the forefront in grappling with tricky issues in medical ethics and politics – topics that the best known medical journals and authorities should deal with but steer clear of. One of us (DH) had a growing awareness of IJME’s lead on tricky […]

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Cis- and Trans-Drug Wrecks
July 15, 2019 | 3 Comments

After a Montelukast Withdrawal Syndrome post two weeks back, we had more comments than after any previous post – so much so that this seemed worth noting in a Post in its own right. After last weeks Transgender Meds, we have had fewer comments than after any previous post.  This also seems worth noting in […]

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Transgender Meds: A Call for Reports
July 8, 2019 | 18 Comments

This post is an invitation to report on drugs prescribed to transgender people. These include cross-sex hormones – testosterone for women, estrogen and progesterone for men, hormone-blocking agents like Lupron given to children with gender dysphoria to stop the physical changes of puberty, and other drugs like finasteride, spironolactone and birth-control pills prescribed to manage […]

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Homicide
Lupron: Homicide of a Husband
September 18, 2014 | 12 Comments

Editorial Note: This post starts with Michelle Millikan’s report to FDA of the night she killed her husband. The event Several days after my 6th injection of Lupron Depot, in some kind of an impossible-to-understand and difficult-to-explain ‘fugue state’, I killed my husband with a gunshot to the head while he was sleeping. I have […]

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IVF treatment
Lupron: a Nightmare produced in Abbvie
February 18, 2014 | 200 Comments

Editorial Note: This post is by Lynne Millican, the founder of Lupron Victims Hub. Lupron is leuporelin – one of several Relins. Lynne’s story which dates from the late 1980s is still being repeated today with drugs like Goserelin – Zoladex. This group of drugs can cause seriously bad outcomes for some women. But it […]

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Clear skin
Diane and Diana: Carly’s Story
January 8, 2013 | 23 Comments

Carly’s story: I was referred to a psychiatrist for adult ADD when I started my first year at university. I made a passing complaint to my aunt, who is also a GP, over the summer about some occasional acne around my period. She suggested that I try Diane-35. I was also taking dexedrine at the time, […]

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Bathroom scales and weight gain
Weight Gain on Thyroxine
September 17, 2012 | 280 Comments

If there is one thing most doctors think they know it’s that weight gain can be caused by an underactive thyroid and having an overactive thyroid leads to weight loss. So the thyroid hormone, thyroxine, will lead to weight loss. And magazines, newspapers and websites, especially in the United States openly invite anyone who is […]

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