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
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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
The Prozac Liberation Front
Chatting, recently, to two different friends of his separately, mentioning the possible role of SSRIs or other meds in the Tumbler Ridge shooting, a colleague (C1 - the first of 3 colleagues in this post) got blown away by both of them. Conspiracy theories, they told him. Misinformation - you're being ridiculous. One of them - a decent scientist - sent him a ChatGPT read … [Read more...] about The Prozac Liberation Front
Can We Avoid Being Eaten
Carney at Davos Like or loathe his politics, unless I am missing something, Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister and Liberal party leader, seems a decent man. As the Canadian standing up to Donald Trump, whether you are pro- or anti-Trump, you are likely interested to see how this contact sport plays out. (Even Curling is close to being a contact sport these days). On … [Read more...] about Can We Avoid Being Eaten
Gaslighting, Milgram and Madness
This image is from Wikipedia Gaslighting which gives the credit details. The word Gaslighting comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight about a husband's attempts to get his wife to doubt her sanity. It caught on slowly but as this graph shows in the last decade its use has taken off. The greatest relative rise in its use may be in healthcare. Until recently it was inconceivable … [Read more...] about Gaslighting, Milgram and Madness