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Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals It’s a reasonable bet they are an even greater cause of death … [Read More...]

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We need data for Data Based Medicine One of the purposes of this blog is to invite colleagues to add to the knowledge base on drug groups. I'll … [Read More...]

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Share Your Story

One of my goals on this blog is to provide a forum for people to share their stories on drug side effects. So if you or your partner, parent, child, … [Read More...]

From the Blog

Every drink spiked

May 17, 2012 By 5 Comments

This post is written anonymously (see Petra’s story). I outlined how my daughter Petra came to take Cymbalta on this blog a few months ago (see Petra’s story; also see Symbolta of Sorts). This post tells of events that led to her coming off. Petra is an enthusiast for motor sport events. She has been on track days, hill climbs and driver training events. She is a member of an Italian car … [Read More...]

A Symbolta of Sorts

May 14, 2012 By 6 Comments

In the early 1990s, Prozac was riding high but Lilly were planning its successor. The leading candidate was duloxetine – a dual inhibitor of both serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake as the older tricylic antidepressants (TCAs) had been. The company approached me in 1992 to recruit patients to a clinical trial of the new drug but before the trial could start duloxetine was pulled from … [Read More...]

Shocking the Homeland

May 10, 2012 By 6 Comments

The thriller Homeland reached its denouement in the UK at the weekend – in an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) scene. Claire Danes, a Homeland security agent supposedly taking Clozapine to contain her paranoia has to distinguish reality from psychosis to save the United States (see Homeland Security). Quite obviously to anyone who knows anything about Clozapine, she was not taking it. She … [Read More...]

The factories of post-modernism

May 7, 2012 By 7 Comments

In the 1960s revolution was afoot. Antipsychiatry was born. The new revolutionnaries targetted medicalization and claimed mental illnesses didn't exist. Out of this cauldron, postmodernism was discovered. Postmodernism provided the basis for an ongoing guerilla war against capitalism and industrial society waged by social scientists, anthropologists and others trained in the … [Read More...]

May Fools’ Day

May 3, 2012 By 2 Comments

Following the long-standing tradition, dating back at least to Chaucer, of playing practical jokes on May 1, The Scientist clearly thought it would be a good idea to show the outside world that science doesn’t always have to be stuffy and picked the appropriate day to demonstrate the point (http://the-scientist.com/2012/05/01/data-diving/). May Fools' Day Joke Sadly, the joke has gone … [Read More...]

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Media coverage

  15 May 2012 WORT RadioMadison Wisconsin 8 O'Clock Buzz - … [Read More...]

Speaking Engagements – updated

  Lectures and promotion for Pharmaggedon and RxISK.org. Have … [Read More...]

Press release: Pharmageddon is here

For immediate release Toronto, February 28, 2012 Pharmaceutical … [Read More...]

4-24 March 2012: North American visit

  Lectures and promotion for Pharmaggedon and RxISK.org. My … [Read More...]

8 February 2012: Lancaster, UK

The Eclipse of Medical Care Lancaster University Management … [Read More...]

Pharmageddon

Pharmageddon from Dr David Healy

In 1962 a sleeping pill called thalidomide caused a horrific drug disaster whose emblematic images of limbless and handicapped babies born to distraught mothers linger to this … Learn More »

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