Big Friendly Gates On 28 April the NEJM published the interim results of a trial of Prefusion F Protein–Based Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization in Pregnancy. This paper contains evidence of a neonatal jaundice hazard in the babies whose mothers had been immunised - but you'd never guess it from the way the paper is written. Prizer's RSVpreF Trial Pfizer’s phase 2 … [Read more...] about Yellow and Other Virus and Vaccine Perils
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Who’s Afraid of Science?
I was invited by Yulia Mikhailova to deliver a Guest Lecture to the New Mexico Technical Institute on Wednesday February 2. The talk began and appeared to be going smoothly, when halfway through the Zoom room was hacked with the hackers saying and writing a lot divisive and hateful things. A later post will say more. The talk has been re-recorded and hopefully a recorded Q and … [Read more...] about Who’s Afraid of Science?
The Evidence that Counts for Us
This post follows last weeks The Evidence that Counts for FDA. The image of dog or bear in a burning house with an untested fire extinguisher is one that many medical managers have used when referring to the Covid crisis and vaccines - the vaccines may not be perfect but we are in a burning house and even if untested they are better than nothing. Thanks to the College of … [Read more...] about The Evidence that Counts for Us
The Evidence that Counts for FDA
This is part one of a two part post. The image is from the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Arc and shows Indiana Jones being chased by angry natives with the shakiest of means of escape - like trying to escape in a Ford Pinto which risked bursting into flames. A Fireser 747 Max 8 might have been more up to date option. Part two next week. When vaccines and drugs … [Read more...] about The Evidence that Counts for FDA
The Eclipse of Health Care
This post has a partner - There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie. It also needs to be read with its Health Warning. A Full Eclipse of Care In the early 1980s, the pharmaceutical industry outsourced the running of its randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and the writing up of RCT results to medical writing companies. With this, … [Read more...] about The Eclipse of Health Care
The Standardization of Psychiatry
The Back Story Britain's Royal College of Psychiatrists recently produced a book, Mind State and Society, edited by George Ikkos and Nick Bouras. MSS celebrates 50 years of psychiatry during the period 1960 - 2010. George approached me for a chapter on pharmaceutical industry input to the period. I wrote The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Standardisation of Psychiatric … [Read more...] about The Standardization of Psychiatry
People are the Data in Clinical Trials
This is the second of a 3 lecture series given to family doctors in Stockholm on September 9 this year. The meeting was organized by André Marx. The alternate title of this talk is Girl who Tackles Ghosts. It follows Girl with a Clinical Trial Tattoo. It will be followed by Girl who Eats Salt. Thomas Hultgren did a video recording through Zoom. One child makes a … [Read more...] about People are the Data in Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials Are Unsafe
This is the first of 3 linked lectures given to family doctors in Stockholm on September 9 2021. The meeting was organized by André Marx, a family doctor in Stockholm who also runs Sweden's first and only public health care-funded withdrawal clinic for psychiatric drugs. The alternate title of this talk is Girl with a Clinical Trial Tattoo. It will be followed by Girl who … [Read more...] about Clinical Trials Are Unsafe
The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
Venus is the black dot in the upper right quadrant of the sun. The plan was to finish the I Can't Breathe series with Magic is from Venus but then the word Nurture popped onto my radar. There is a Venus Rising to come. The word autonomy starts appearing in medicine and in bioethics sometime in the 1950s, give or take a few years, linked to the emergence of Informed … [Read more...] about The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
I can’t breathe
On Wednesday February 10, I gave a lecture at the Therapeutics Initiative (the T.I.) in Vancouver about the Permanent Sexual Dysfunctions SSRIs and other drugs can cause. See Sex and Evidence Based Medicine. The damage done by these drugs often extends beyond a total and complete inability to feel sexual desire and pleasure to a total inability to feel pleasure of any sort … [Read more...] about I can’t breathe