One of the hopes of this blog is to create a repository of maneuvers through which clinical trials can be gamed to get results. The series of posts laying out some of the less well known tricks are filed under the Hiding the Bodies blog category. To be more generally useful, this repository needs others to contribute further maneuvers to make it comprehensive and to … [Read more...] about The tricks that drug companies do live after them, their patients are oft interred with their trials
Archives for February 2012
Where Were The Adults?
Along with Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline (see Drug companies use studies the way a drunk uses a lamppost), Pfizer created ghost suicidal acts on placebo. Other companies did further things that concealed the suicide problem. Did Pfizer? Black box warning on pediatric use of antidepressants In 2004, following the lead of the British Regulator (MHRA), the FDA put a Black Box … [Read more...] about Where Were The Adults?
Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
In the late 1980s, Eli Lilly, when faced with an excess of suicidal behaviors in Prozac trials, set up a trial of Prozac in an interesting group of patients. These patients had what is often called borderline personality disorder or intermittent brief depressive disorder or recurrent brief depressive disorder. The trial terminated early. Placebo was sweepingly statistically … [Read more...] about Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
4-24 March 2012: North American visit
Lectures and promotion for Pharmageddon and RxISK.org. My speaking calendar is as follows (more details to come). Date Time City Location Details 5 March 12-1pm Boston Tufts University (Farnsworth 250 Conference Room) The Changing Face of Psychosis 8 March 9:30-10:30am 12-1pm New Jersey Rutgers (First Floor Conference … [Read more...] about 4-24 March 2012: North American visit