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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

The Wild Doctor – Le Médecin Sauvage

August 15, 2023 2 Comments

The French playwright Moliere loved poking fun at pomposity especially when it involved doctors. In Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, he pokes fun at Monsieur Jourdain, a pompous upstart, who has come into money and is taking on airs and graces. Translating gentilhomme into gentleman misses what the word meant around 1660, which was more like civilized, the manners which … [Read more...] about The Wild Doctor – Le Médecin Sauvage

A Brush with the European Medicines’ Agency

August 6, 2023 16 Comments

This post should be read in conjunction with Are Journalists the Answer to Clinical Medicines Cause and Effect Problem which is on davidhealy.org, or will be, and last weeks Clinical Details Confuse Expert Doctors along with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Suicide Note. Several months ago, I agreed to review an article by John Read analyzing the hundreds of antidepressant … [Read more...] about A Brush with the European Medicines’ Agency

Clinical Details Confuse Expert Doctors

July 26, 2023 33 Comments

Following the death of their 16-year-old son Romain, who had been put on paroxetine with Tercian later added, Yoko Motohama and Vincent Schmitt began asking questions of GSK, Sanofi, the French ANSM (Agence nationale de sécurité du medicament), and others. They set up two websites Antidepeffects.wordpress.com and Romainschmitt.wordpress.com. Romain’s case features on … [Read more...] about Clinical Details Confuse Expert Doctors

Could Doctors be Journalists in Disguise

June 14, 2023 45 Comments

The bravery and dogged persistence of one woman, Rosie Tilli, was in the background to the last RxISK post - Could Journalists be Doctors in Disguise. Her story featured the same day in Antidepressants can Cause Chemical Castration, an article by Maryanne Demasi, a rather exceptional journalist. Lest anyone think there is a cosy club here, Maryanne and I fell out over a … [Read more...] about Could Doctors be Journalists in Disguise

DD and AA Groups Similarities and Differences

March 20, 2023 15 Comments

Illustration: Is There Life After Meds?, © 2014 created by Billiam James DD in this case stands for Drug Damaged.  AA for Alcoholics Anonymous. Some of the material in this post is likely to disturb some readers. Reading it in conjunction with Here We Stand We Can Do No Other and Dos Centavos - Veinte Euros may help make sense of material that may not sit well with some … [Read more...] about DD and AA Groups Similarities and Differences

What Twitter doesn’t Want you to Know about Sex

February 6, 2023 5 Comments

This brief post links to a development since the last - Everything you Want to Know about Sex - post. Twitter like Woody Allen seems to believe you shouldn't be allowed to ask certain questions. A few weeks ago I did a podcast with Liz Tucker on her What Your GP Doesn't Tell You podcast series - which has a lot of stellar interviews.  It took a while to edit, finally … [Read more...] about What Twitter doesn’t Want you to Know about Sex

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

Twas the NICE before Christmas.

December 22, 2022 15 Comments

To the Sounds of a Drum © Nina Otulakowski November 2022 This letter, which has had no response, needs to be read in conjunction with Can you Hear the Suzerain Call? Letter to Dr S Roberts, CEO, Ms Nebhrajani, Chair, NICE November 30 2022 Dear Drs Roberts and Ms. Nebhrajani I wrote to your predecessors Dr Haslam and Mr. Dillon just under 3 years ago about the issues of … [Read more...] about Twas the NICE before Christmas.

Science, Kansas and the Wizard of Washington

November 10, 2022 8 Comments

This post follows on from Science, Kansas and Pancakes.  Peter is doing a good job spreading word of this article on the Prozac studies in children and featuring other aspects of this extraordinary story.  This post focusses in on one revelatory feature. Reviewer #3: A window with the view on the details of how drug approval proceeds. Very informative and helpful for … [Read more...] about Science, Kansas and the Wizard of Washington

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