Interviews, press coverage, book reviews, and mentions.
Date | Media | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-10 | RT Network | Pharmacated: Is America overmedicated? If so, is this the business plan of Big Pharma, or just genuine health concerns? Does the pharmaceutical industry bury relevant information about the dangers of prescription drugs? And who has an interest in expanding the definitions of mental illness? CrossTalking with Josh Bloom, Martha Rosenberg and David Healy. |
| 2013-05-30 | AlterNet | Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up: The pharmaceutical industry has compromised the Western medical establishment and hooked America on drugs. One psychiatrist is fighting back. |
| 2013-04-24 | 1BoringOldMan | Which drug is best for Mr. Jones?: ...Right now, Dr. David Healy is coming towards the end of his series on the history of the use of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials and Evidence-Based Medicine with the stories of Lou Lasagna [US] and Michael Shepherd [UK] – the doctors that essentially introduced the RCTs to regulatory medicine and popularized their use... |
| 2013-04-22 | The Honest Apothecary | Pharmageddon, RxISK.org, and an interview with Dr. David Healy: This is the fullest account to date of possible ways for pharmacists to change clinical care using RxISK |
| 2013-04-22 | Daily Mail Online | Could your medicine give you a drink problem?: The disturbing side-effects even the manufacturers don't know about |
| 2013-04-20 | Maclean's magazine | There's a pill for that: A B.C. class-action suit against the makers of Paxil is putting the spotlight on a controversial issue: the growing use of antidepressants during pregnancy |
| 2013-04-20 | Global News | Drug reactions: In a 16×9 investigation Sean O’Shea reveals what drug companies knew about the effectiveness and side effects of antidepressants and how the drugs got onto pharmacy shelves despite some glaring flaws |
| 2013-04-17 | Collegiate Times | Mental rehabilitation should focus on behavioral therapy: Dr. David Healy, controversial British psychiatrist and founder of RxISK.org, has recently come out with a statistic that states “some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs.” |
| 2013-04-14 | BBC Radio | The Prozac Economy: Prozac is 25 years old. It has been taken by over 40 million people around the world and made billions of dollars for Eli Lilly, the company that created it. But does it work? And what effect has the promise of a "happiness pill" had on society? |
| 2013-04-02 | 1Boring Old Man | Something essential betrayed: "I advertised that "My next post will attempt to summarize the first two installments" of Dr. Healy’s current series..." |
| 2013-04-01 | 1Boring Old Man | Hearing voices: But there's another voice, a voice we've become accustomed to hearing and respecting, a voice that was one of the earliest voices of clarity in this whole story - Dr. David Healy. (scroll to end of page) |
| 2013-01-23 | AmmoLand | Making little murderers by prescription: If anything good comes from the Newtown massacre, it will be a national discussion of the role of various psychological medications that have been foisted on a generation or two of young Americans in the nation’s schools. |
| 2013-01-22 | WND Education | Top Psychiatrist: Meds Behind School Massacres Society conducting 'vast social experiment' without knowing its end |
| 2013-01-19 | National Post | Poison in Healthy Doses: MP warns that Canadians blind to dangers of prescription drugs David Healy, CEO of RxISK.org, is an Irish doctor working in Wales who has made a career of holding drug companies to account on these questions . |
| 2012-12-19 | InsideHalton.com | Oakville MP on drug safety panel: Oakville MP Terence Young will be one of three panelists in an upcoming discussion on prescription drug safety. Co-hosted by RxISK.org and the Patients’ Association of Canada, the free panel discussion, called You and Your Meds: Are They Safe?, will be held Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 at Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. |
| 2012-12-19 | U.S. Constitutional Free Press | Psych meds linked to 90% of school shootings: "...Some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, according to British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy, a founder of RxISK.org, an independent website for researching and reporting on prescription drugs." |
| 2012-12-18 | WND Education | Pysch meds linked to 90% of school shootings: Expert: Psychiatric drugs likely cause of Lanza's extreme violence |
| 2012-12-12 | Maclean's magazine | Pharmageddon named one of best non-fiction books of 2012: Neuropharmacologist David Healy’s exposé of the pharmaceutical industry’s control of modern medicine is a chilling, essential read |
| 2012-12-03 | Health Affairs | Medicine in the thrall of the culture of drugs: Donald W. Light reviews Pharmageddon |
| 2012-12-02 | Mercola.com | How the Pharmaceutical Industry Profits from False Claims, and a Brand New Online Tool that Can Help You Get Better Health Care: Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. David Healy |
| 2012-11-20 | Cardiff University | David Healy's recent lecture at Cardiff: Time to abandon evidence based medicine? captured on You Tube. |
| 2012-11-20 | HealthNewsReview.org | RxISK.org - A Megaphone For Patients and Their Doctors: Noteworthy new website launch - RxISK.org: "Making medicines safer for all of us." It's founded by Dr. David Healy, internationally renowned psychiatrist and author from Wales; Dr. Dee Mangin of New Zealand, Dr. Kalman Applbaum of the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Nancy Olivieri and others you can read about here. |
| 2012-11-20 | Macleans.ca | Heartburn pills that cause heart attacks, antidepressants that lead to suicide: Why does Canada trail U.S. and EU in protecting citizens from dangerous meds? Two new books - Pharmageddon, by Irish psychiatrist David Healy, and Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, by British doctor Ben Goldacre - present scathing critiques of the $800-billion pharmaceutical industry, including evidence of its routine suppression of negative clinical trial results, something Goldacre calls "a global scandal that puts patients at risk." |
| 2012-10-05 | Time Healthland | Psychiatrist Contends the Field Is 'Committing Professional Suicide': British psychiatrist and Big Pharma gadfly David Healy is so controversial amongst his colleagues that some have tried to have his medical license revoked - but there he was on Thursday, speaking at the American Psychiatric Association's second largest annual meeting at a well-attended session on conflicts of interest. |
| 2012-10-05 | Dr. Mercola | Dr. Mercola: Interview with Dr. Healy on links between SSRIs suicides, violence, birth defects, and miscarriages and the RxISK solution |
| 2012-09-20 | Camden New Journal | BOOKS: Pharmageddon. By David Healy: In this very important book, Pharmageddon, you will read that the influence of the industry has now become more subtle, more insidious and much more worrying. Only last week two eminent French specialists concluded that half of all drugs prescribed in France are either useless or actually dangerous. by ROBERT MACGIBBON |
| 2012-08-21 | The DIYEHR Project | Book Review: Pharmageddon by David Healy: Pharmageddon, the new book by David Healy, is not only worth reading it should be required reading for everyone who visits a doctor's office. The book covers everything from the unintended consequences of drug industry legislation to the details of how pharma's marketing departments manipulate the results of clinical trials. |
| 2012-08-07 | Attentiallebufale.it | Pharmageddon: The Beginning or the End?: The recent multi-billion dollar settlement between the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and the US Department of Justice reminded us, if ever we needed reminding, of the string of revelations about the behavior of Big Pharma. |
| 2012-07-18 | The Jefferson Exchange Radio Show | Pharmageddon: An Interview with David Healy: In the past half-century, as the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals promised remedies, the treatment of ailments and illness may have supplanted a humanistic perspective of health. In his book, "Pharmageddon," Professor of psychiatry David Healy explores the paradox of how improved techniques, tools, and medicines can ulitmately eliminate the "care" in health care. |
| 2012-07-04 | Psychology Today | Drug Trials and Data-Based Medicine: An Interview with David Healy How can patients get better, more-reliable data about Rx drugs? |
| 2012-06-17 | OpEdNews.com | Has the Drug Industry's Grip On Health Care Become a Pharmageddon?: A Conversation with David Healy, MD, author of the new book Pharmageddon |
| 2012-06-07 | Literary Review | Bitter Pills to Swallow: Review of Pharmageddon by James Le Fanu |
| 2012-06-02 | StarTribune | The consumer advocate (med tech not included): David Healy, the author of a powerful new critique of the health care industry titled "Pharmageddon," has written about the manner in which private industry has so thoroughly seized control of the data and debate surrounding medicine that we cannot even see how we are spending more and living shorter lives with every "life-saving" advancement dropped on our doorstep . |
| 2012-05-30 | Underground Wellness | Pharmageddon: How Big Pharma Hijacked Healthcare: David Healy, author of Pharmageddon, visits the show to drop some ginormous truth bombs regarding what is REALLY wrong with healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. |
| 2012-05-25 | Swindon 105.5 | Health Matters With Christina & Ann-Marie Prof David Healy, Psychiatrist, Psycho-Pharmacologist and author of Pharmageddon, talks to Ann-Marie & Christina about how pharmaceutical companies organise research into prescription drugs, the ghostwriters that are employed and how they legalise drugs with dangerous side affects. |
| 2012-05-15 | WORT Radio Madison Wisconsin | 8 O'Clock Buzz - Tuesday (Go to Archive/Podcasts to download the show. David is interviewed at approx 15:26 into the program.) |
| 2012-05-05 | Global News: 16x9 The Bigger Picture | Genetic Rx Every prescription drug carries with it a risk, but depending on our genetic makeup, some of us are at more risk than others (go to approx. 12:45 into the broadcast to see David Healy's comments). |
| 2012-05-02 | TCD School of Nursing & Midwifery | The Eclipse of Medical and Psychiatric Care: Public lecture by Professor David Healy |
| 2012-04-28 | New Scientist | One minute with David Healy: Countering the drug industry's marketing machine |
| 2012-04-24 | Daily Mail Online | Think the drugs your GP gives you are safe? Well, don't be so sure: Article by Professor David Healy |
| 2012-04-13 | The Globe and Mail | How big pharma gets rich at our expense: Review of Pharmageddon |
| 2012-04-10 | Super Human Radio | Pharmageddon Dr. Healy talks about his book Pharmageddon and its prophetic message how the current pharmaceutical model may cause great damage to our civilization |
| 2012-04-09 | One Radio Network | David Healy - Author of 'Pharmageddon': The Hijacking of Healthcare in America The Morning Show with Patrick Timpone |
| 2012-04-04 | Corporations and Health Watch | Finding a Cure for "Pharmacosis" Article on David's lecture at the CUNY Graduate Centre |
| 2012-04-03 | ehealth forum | Pharmageddon - David Healy: Book review by Bob Fiddaman |
| 2012-04-01 | Division of Clinical Psychology | Pharmageddon, by David Healy: Review by Dr J. Mitchell Noon |
| 2012-03-29 | 1290 AM CJBK, London, Ontario | Andy Oudman and Pam Killeen interview Dr. David Healy about his new book, Pharmageddon |
| 2012-03-28 | Time Healthland | Mind Reading: Psychiatrist Dr. David Healy Defines 'Pharmageddon' A Q&A with the author of Pharmageddon about how the pharmaceutical industry has co-opted medicine |
| 2012-03-22 | Prime Time Radio with Mike Cuthbert | Pharmageddon Dr. David Healy makes an argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, dissecting problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. |
| 2012-03-21 | The Irish Examiner | Lynch to meet group over anti-depressants The minister with responsibility for mental health will meet a delegation concerned about serious side-effects of anti-depressants |
| 2012-03-20 | TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paiken | Depressed Over Antidepressants: It's been almost a quarter century since the introduction of Prozac. Since then, Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) have emerged as the dominant anti-depressant. Yet mistrust over SSRIs abounds because of their perceived over-use and initially under-reported side-effects and risks. Are SSRIs the bane of psychiatry, or have they been a panacea for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders? |
| 2012-03-20 | TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paiken | Bad Medicine - Pharmageddon: Cardiff University psychiatrist Dr. David Healy says evidence-based medicine and industry-controlled drug trials are leading to an over reliance and unnecessary treatment by prescription. As part of TVO 19s Mental Health Matters coverage, he joins Steve Paikin to detail what he sees as the growing pharmaceuticalization of medicine. (see comments on recoverynetwork: toronto) |
| 2012-03-20 | WAMC Northeast Public Radio | David Healy - Pharmageddon Joe Donahue speaks with David Healy about his book, Pharmageddon |
| 2012-03-19 | KERA Public Media for North Texas | Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare: Is the proliferation of pharmaceutical healthcare options a good or bad thing? Our guest this hour warns that big-pharma may be having an acute deleterious effect on our health - especially in America. |
| 2012-03-15 | CBC Radio | Halifax Maritime Noon (go to approx. 12:20 into the podcast to listen to callers' questions about drug side effects) |
| 2012-03-15 | KNews with Charlie Dyer | Dr. David Healy, author, Pharmageddon |
| 2012-03-15 | The Globe and Mail | Drug-risk website aimed at consumers |
| 2012-03-13 | recoverynetwork: toronto | RxISK.org: Precis of The Eclipse of Medical Care lecture to University of Toronto Faculty of Pharmacy |
| 2012-03-08 | Temps Pr_sent _ Radio T_l_vision Suisse | La molcule qui rend fou En Suisse la consommation d'antidpresseurs a plus que doubl ces dix dernires annes. Mais la molcule de la dernire gnration suscite l'inquitude. Et si les antidpresseurs poussaient la violence et au suicide ? En Suisse et l'tranger, plusieurs faits-divers dramatiques ont attir l'attention des spcialistes. Des victimes racontent comment la petite pilule qui devait les soulager a fini par les rendre fous. (go to approx 13:20 into the piece to see David Healy) |
| 2012-03-08 | Strategies for Living | Pharmageddon / David Healy, MD Have pharmaceutical companies hijacked healthcare in America? |
| 2012-03-06 | Irish Examiner | Warnings that some prescription drugs cause violent thoughts |
| 2012-03-06 | Yorkshire Evening Post | Search for Leeds women from 1983 antidepressant drugs trial |
| 2012-03-01 | AFR Front Page News | Pharmageddon |
| 2012-02-21 | Forbes | Can Strong Prayer Bend the Medical Cost Curve?: In a provocative essay entitled, “Randomized God,” internationally renowned psychiatrist David Healy lays out a blueprint for a clinical trial to test the healing power of prayer |
| 2012-02-08 | Lancaster University Management School | The Eclipse of Medical Care: Guest lecture followed by a Q&A session |
| 2012-01-30 | Publishers Weekly | Phamageddon - Non-fiction review: "We are quite literally taking drugs to save the lives of companies who have a greater interest in the vitality of the diseases they market drugs for than in our well-being," argues British psychiatrist Healy (Let Them Eat Prozac) in this scathing critique of the $900 billion global pharmaceutical industry. |
| 2011-12-31 | Documentary | Branding Illness: Featuring at times acerbic commentary from experts including physicians, historians and medical anthropologists (among them maverick academic David Healy), BRANDING ILLNESS offers unprecedented insight into the ways illnesses and their potential cures are marketed. (view YouTube excerpt of David on right side of page: 4:55mins) |
