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Uterine Roulette and Consent

December 12, 2023 9 Comments

This post continues with the Lonesome Heroines theme - Consent. It needs reading in conjunction with Peter Selley's Coming Clean on Neonatal Deaths. The fact these posts deal with vaccines is semi-irrelevant - they are about a development model, a playbook, set up with SSRIs that industry now apply across all products. Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book by the Boston Women's … [Read more...] about Uterine Roulette and Consent

Silencing Doctors Silencing Safety

November 16, 2023 22 Comments

This post runs hand in hand with Women and Children First by Peter Selley.  Both posts link to a BMJ Consent Article and Vaccine contre la bronchiolite: Pfizer Essais en zone d'ombre by Ariane Denoyel for Blast, a French investigative journalism unit. Peter Selley first contacted me in April 2020. As I now know Peter has an impeccable background in common sense. He and his … [Read more...] about Silencing Doctors Silencing Safety

How the Safety of Drugs was Destroyed

August 22, 2023 14 Comments

Emer Cooke, the CEO of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is Irish. This is Dublin's famous Halfpenny Bridge which for some reason features in an article outlining the history of the phrase Tail wags Dog which seems appropriate for what followed. I wrote to Emer recently about a bizarre letter I received from Kinapse - A Brush with EMA - who run EMA's medical literature … [Read more...] about How the Safety of Drugs was Destroyed

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 … [Read more...] about Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related

Brain Fog: What is it? How to Treat it.

March 15, 2022 22 Comments

Lots of people complain of cognitive problems on or after taking medications, whether psychotropic drugs, cholesterol lowering statins, asthma drugs like montelukast, or fluoroquinolone antibiotics. They often use the word “Brain Fog” to cover this.  Women get Brain Fog in pregnancy that can linger afterwards. People with Long Covid complain of Brain Fog as do the Covid … [Read more...] about Brain Fog: What is it? How to Treat it.

Causes Sexual Dysfunction, Suicide and Birth Defects?

March 3, 2020 35 Comments

Everyone who reads RxISK posts will know that SSRI and related drugs (some antibiotics, painkillers, antihistamines and most antidepressants) can cause sexual dysfunction. This has been known since 1961. And that they can cause suicide.  This has been known since 1959. And that they can cause birth defects. The first publication by an Australian obstetrician, William … [Read more...] about Causes Sexual Dysfunction, Suicide and Birth Defects?

You’ll Come a Taltzing Matilda with Me

March 6, 2017 21 Comments

Editorial Note: This post links to Are you Aware that Siliq causes Suicide and Otezla: Birth Defects and Suicide.  Pharma companies have a great deal of skin in the dermatology game at the moment - perhaps more than in any other area of medicine. Taltz, aka ixekizumab, is yet another new drug for psoriasis. Others include Cosentyx aka secukinumab, and Stelara, aka … [Read more...] about You’ll Come a Taltzing Matilda with Me

Otezla: Birth Defects and Suicide

February 27, 2017 27 Comments

We've been here before - a woman in come hither mode or able to plunge into come hither mode at a moment's notice without the worry of being compromised by a minor skin blemish just below her hairline.  See Stacy London and Welcome to Troy. AbbVie pioneered advertising like this for Humira, a hugely costly and highly dangerous drug. Humira can be very useful for some severe … [Read more...] about Otezla: Birth Defects and Suicide

Autistic Spectrum Disorder and SSRIs

October 25, 2016 17 Comments

Five years ago, the Croen et al article in the Figure above appeared suggesting that antidepressant use in pregnancy can cause Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Pharmaceutical companies rushed to manage the risks - to them. What you do is you convene your experts and you put them in boxes, a teratology box, an animal studies box, an epidemiology box, a psychology box, a … [Read more...] about Autistic Spectrum Disorder and SSRIs

The Devil Doesn’t Have All The Best Tunes

January 25, 2016 2 Comments

Mikey Argy

This weeks Observer Review contains an interview (below) with Mikey Argy (above) to link up with the release of Attacking the Devil, a movie about the thalidomide story. The photo of Mikey here doesn't show what the photo in the print edition shows. Almost two years ago RxISK featured the thalidomiders behind this movie in Thalidomide: From Disaster to Recovery. This post … [Read more...] about The Devil Doesn’t Have All The Best Tunes

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