This post links to last week's Silencing Safety and Women and Children First and this week's Lonesome Heroines on RxISK. For decades, Jack Noble has been an inspiration for anyone in my and I'm sure other circles, who is concerned about the way medicine is going and the influence of pharma. He's a straight-talking Bostonian, now living in Texas, who can't easily be … [Read more...] about Silent Health
Politics of Care
Women and Children First: The RSV Iceberg
This post written by Peter Selley and goes hand in hand with Silencing Doctors by David Healy on RxISK.org, which takes you in between the lines of what is written here and in two articles published today - a BMJ Consent Article and Vaccine contre la bronchiolite: Pfizer Essais en zone d'ombre by Ariane Denoyel for Blast, a French investigative journalism unit. The RSV … [Read more...] about Women and Children First: The RSV Iceberg
Pharmageddon and Fertility
This post needs reading in conjunction with Has Healthcare Gone Mad and A Medical Triumph. This image of declining British fertility from 1880 was repeated across the Western world and more recently the whole world. The usual explanations are in terms of social and economic factors and are typically seen as a good thing. Progressives see women getting more control over the … [Read more...] about Pharmageddon and Fertility
Has Healthcare Gone Mad?
This talk was given at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry on October 28. The Video version of HealthCare Gone Mad is linked here. The slides and text are below. There will soon be an official ISEPP link to the talk and a Q and A, which will be added here as soon as its … [Read more...] about Has Healthcare Gone Mad?
Freeing Teresa: Human Rights Should be for Everyone
RxISK is also running a Freeing Teresa post today.. Samizdat is co-publishing Freeing Teresa with Franke and Bill James. It’s a true story about Franke’s battle to protect her younger sister, Teresa, who has Down syndrome. Ten years ago, based on incorrect health information, Teresa lost her right to decide where to live. Then, she was put involuntarily into long-term care. … [Read more...] about Freeing Teresa: Human Rights Should be for Everyone
The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence
More than any other group of drugs in medicine, the anticholinergics have become Maleficent - blamed for the hedge of thorns that keeps our inner beauty asleep until some medical prince can fight his way through and put a Magic Wafer on our lips.- See Experts by Experience. In 1920 Otto Loewi had a dream that changed our world. Most people thought communication … [Read more...] about The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence
Another Brick in the Wall
Pfizer’s maternal RSV vaccine (RSVpreF aka Abrysvo) has now been approved by both FDA and EMA. In the USA recommendations are awaited from CDC, ACIP and ACOG. Previous posts have examined Abrysvo’s risks if given to pregnant women. See: Yellow Peril A Shot in the Dark Women and Clinical Trials American drug Labels (called Package Inserts elsewhere) are printed … [Read more...] about Another Brick in the Wall
Not The BMJ News
Peter Selley and I have many friends in and a soft spot for The BMJ - the journal for members of the British Medical Association. One of us has read every issue since 1970. We thought there might be some response to our post Are Journalists the Answer to Clinical Medicine's Cause and Effect Problem, which, in the nicest possible way, accused The BMJ of cooking up the equivalent … [Read more...] about Not The BMJ News
Are Journalists the Answer to Clinical Medicines Cause and Effect Problem?
This post by David Healy and Peter Selley does not question the good intentions of anyone mentioned. But sometimes good intentions can land us in a mess. In 2001, Study 329, a clinical trial comparing paroxetine to imipramine and placebo was published; it claimed paroxetine was effective and safe (1). Jon Jureidini and other clinicians drew attention to problems with the … [Read more...] about Are Journalists the Answer to Clinical Medicines Cause and Effect Problem?
From the French Revolution to A.I.
This is the second of two lectures organized by Fanny Dargent who has a longstanding interest in adolescence and its problems and the dangers of psychotropic medication, along with Ariane Denoyel, who has authored the French version of this lecture below, and the author of Génération Zombie, the leading book in French on these issues. The first lecture centres on the case of … [Read more...] about From the French Revolution to A.I.