https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BKRRE1lhM Someone tuning into the closing arguments in the Clancy case without having seen anything that went before, especially if they came to it thinking trials should hinge on facts rather than waffle or emotions, would likely have been left figuring the prosecution has to win. They dealt in details. Details about her … [Read more...] about Damnation or Salvation – High Stakes Court Case
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The Eclipse of Science and of Us
An alternate title for this post could have been something like A Medical Yankee in King Charles' Court or King Donald's Court - your choice of Kings. The recent Eclipse makes this title timely. An Eclipse also features in the original A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - a take-down of both superstition and science. Homicide on psychotropic drugs has badly … [Read more...] about The Eclipse of Science and of Us
Entranced, Spellbound, Mesmerized
Consent to Waltz, Capacity to Tango, Connect to.. using statin and antihypertensive examples shows how we on one side and our doctors on the other can get blindsided by treatment and end up incapacitated. These difficulties are magnified with psychotropic drugs, where the availability of a mental illness on which everything can be blamed makes it almost too … [Read more...] about Entranced, Spellbound, Mesmerized
Can Stealing be Regulated
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
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