Making medicines safer for all of us
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 in non-hospital settings where there is no one to monitor things going wrong and no one to intervene to save a life. In mental health, for instance, drug-induced problems are the leading cause of death — and these deaths happen in community rather than hospital settings.
There is also another drug crisis — we are failing to discover new drugs. [Read more…]
From the blog…
FDA Panel: SSRIs and Pregnancy
On behalf of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H., the FDA is holding a series of roundtable discussions with independent panels of scientific experts that will review the latest scientific evidence, evaluate potential health risks, explore safer alternatives, and may offer recommendations for regulatory action. This initiative is part of the FDA’s broader efforts to…
Bauer Power and Informed Consent
In Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder on RxISK, I mention that for me a key paper in a reference list of 27 references was one by Ann Bauer and colleagues, who recognized limitations to the epidemiological data but nailed their colours to the mast in saying that there was sufficient evidence here that pregnant women…
Secret Moderna Trial Documents
This post by Peter Selley details yet another Selley triumph. It’s extraordinary what focus and persistence can achieve. I am dedicating this post to Nikki Rutman, twenty years an analyst with the FBI, who currently heads up Moderna’s Global Intelligence Division. Moderna’s shares have plummeted since its 2021 Covid heyday. This appears unrelated to my…
Safety or System?
Samizdat has just been graced with Gene Larkin’s Seeking Soteria accompanied by Bill James fabulous artwork (graced is the best word). For reasons that will become clear, the title of this post picks up on the last post Unsafe Safety. Gene can be heard talking about Soteria with colleagues on a Mad in America Soteria…
Unsafe Safety
On March 20th, Senators Tina Smith and Ben Lujan, and Representatives Andrea Salinas and Becca Balint, sent a letter to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy, expressing concern about his promotion of disproven and outright false theories about mental health medications. In separate comments, Senator Smith indicated…