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
Politics of Care
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
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
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
Health a Privilege of Wealth
This post was written 5 years ago. It is a sequel to a lecture posted last week on RxISK with its comments - Are Healthcare and Science Compatible? The comments brought out how we now have a system that gaslights both patients and doctors leading to tensions on all sides as this post illustrates. It also links to RxISK's - Guilty Until Proven Innocent - Prime Facie - this … [Read more...] about Health a Privilege of Wealth
I Come to Praise SSRIs not to Bury Them
This talk was given in Maastricht at the invitation of David Linden, Scientific Director of the Mental Health and Neuroscience Research Institute on November 27 and again to a group of Primary Care Doctors in Sweden at the invitation of André Marx on Nov 28. There were some great questions afterwards. This post gives the text of the talk along with the slides and links to … [Read more...] about I Come to Praise SSRIs not to Bury Them
Artificial Intelligence Triggers a Tsunami
This post follows on from Miracles of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial I. The trigger was an intervention by Chris Dubey, who earlier this year wrote an article on ECT (electroconvulsive therapy - Shock Treatment) for the International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, which was sent to me for review. Most people, whether familiar or not with ECT, would figure … [Read more...] about Artificial Intelligence Triggers a Tsunami
Artificially Intelligent or Artificial I ?
The image here is the front of the Great Seal of the United States - but it has been doctored. The word Unum is replaced by Mediocris which is not Latin for Mediocrity although it might as well be - it's Latin for Average. Earlier posts have dealt with Artificial Intelligence (AI) issues - The Miracle of Artificial Intelligence - and although it may not look like it is … [Read more...] about Artificially Intelligent or Artificial I ?