This letter was email to Dr Dal Pan today July 29, 2026 - See Stolen Lives and Prescribed Harm Awareness Dr Gerald Dal Pan druginfo@fda.hhs.gov Dear Dr Dal Pan I listened with interest to your recent interview with Dr Celia Williams in a Q & A with FDA series, where you were asked which types of adverse event are important to report. I was struck by: ‘We’re … [Read more...] about Can Stealing be Regulated
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Stolen Lives Goes Global
This post is written by Katinka Newman. It links to Prescribed Harm Awareness Day on RxISK. Three years ago, on 29 July, a small group of us gathered together in Hyde Park, London. It was something we set up through Antidepressant Risks, the not-for-profit I founded to improve informed consent around antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, raise awareness of their … [Read more...] about Stolen Lives Goes Global
You Say Retractable, We Say Intractable
δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν When the Peloponnesian War broke out in Greece 2,500 years ago between Athens and Sparta, the Athenians told the islanders living on Melos 'you are either with us or against us'. Athens had created democracy, had all the famous philosophers, dramatists, politicians and control of the propaganda (Greek history was … [Read more...] about You Say Retractable, We Say Intractable
The Black Hole of Modernity
To be read in conjunction with A Human Touch. Thanks to Peter Selley, who found this Industry News, we who sail in RxISK now know we feature in an historical milestone. We had filed a Petition with FDA just under 8 years ago asking for Isotretinoin Labels to include mention of the enduring sexual dysfunction it causes. See Regulators Bearing Gifts and FDA Responds to … [Read more...] about The Black Hole of Modernity
Watch Out. Innocent Abroad
Very nearly 3 decades ago, I got involved in an American lawsuit. Forsyth v Eli Lilly Bill Forsyth was a wealthy man even before he sold the land his car rental business was on to Los Angeles airport. He and his wife, June, left Los Angeles for Maui in 1990, which as anyone who’s been there knows, is idyllic. It also gave June and Bill easy access to their 3 grandchildren … [Read more...] about Watch Out. Innocent Abroad
Regulators Bearing Gifts
Last Wednesday, I had a letter from Michael Davis, the Acting Director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. It wasn’t a complete surprise to get a letter. I’d written to Dr Davis 3 weeks beforehand about MedDRA codes for PSSD and about PSSD more generally. But his letter was not a response to mine. Dockets Dr Davis’ letter was about Docket No. … [Read more...] about Regulators Bearing Gifts
Grasping the Gene Genie
This image and one below is taken from the Sequencing.com website. Will Powers got his PFS patients to get Whole Genome Sequencing done through sequencing.com. He read the resulting information using gene.iobio. The 'system' - 'powers-that-be' is/are unhappy with developments like this for several reasons. One concern is that our genetic data may reveal risks of future … [Read more...] about Grasping the Gene Genie
Ending Enduring Sexual Dysfunctions
See below for an explanation of this image. Will Powers work on Post-Finasteride Syndromes (PFS) has generated a lot of interest. It would be easy to misread the responses. This post asks people with PSSD and PAS to get what are often called Dutch tests done. The U in Dutch stands for Urine. Can send your results to david.healy@rxisk.org – not to Dr. Powers. He was … [Read more...] about Ending Enduring Sexual Dysfunctions
Calling Isotretinoin and SSRI Problem Solvers
This picture comes from a meeting last week in Detroit aimed at tackling and solving the enduring sexual problems linked to Isotretinoin, SSRIs and Finasteride - See Enduring Sexual Problems World Congress. This was a small but intense and exciting meeting. A great deal of the excitement was linked to some findings Will Powers, a Family Doctor, has come up with. Everyone … [Read more...] about Calling Isotretinoin and SSRI Problem Solvers
AI versus the Deep State
A distinguished colleague (C1) introduced last year's word of the year - AI Slop - into last week's The Prozac Liberation Front post. As an unaccountable editor, I took the liberty to suggest that many of us seemed to figure - or would pretty soon get round to figuring - that AI was all too likely to go the way of the Internet as a potentially democratising force in … [Read more...] about AI versus the Deep State