Showing posts with label antipsychotic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antipsychotic. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Atypical Antipsychotics For Depression: Now With "Considerable Evidence"

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I've been wanting to write about this for months. Here goes. We know that antipsychotics are the new panacea for all things mental hea...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Wanted: Drug Pimp/Key Opinion Leader

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Daniel Carlat from the Carlat Psychiatry Blog received an invitation to the key opinion leader club from the good people at Schering-Plough....
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Asenapine Chronicles?

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I'm not sure what to make of this. A lot of documents have become available on the Shearlings Got Plowed blog, which deal with the new...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Thanks For Your Service, Now Take This Pill

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According to a freshly published study, one in five depressed patients receiving services through the VA healthcare system in the United Sta...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Abilify for Depression: Patients Give it an Oh-For-Three

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Abilify for depression: you've seen the ads. You've hopefully read this blog ( 1 , 2 ) and the excellent series in the LA Times fr...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Abilify Runs Amok, Runs Stealth Safety Campaign in Medical Journal

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Furious Seasons has a rather distressing piece of news from a recent Bristol-Myers Squibb conference call . To sum it up quickly, BMS cla...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Abilify Marketing Blitz: Atypical Antipsychotics Gone Wild

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"The results are extremely unimpressive; they just squeak by," says Massachusetts psychiatrist Daniel Carlat, editor of the respec...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Seroquel, Haldol, and The Full Court Media Press

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I was very pleased to have been acknowledged in a recent story in the St. Paul Pioneer Press . The reporter, Jeremy Olson, wrote the follow...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Abilify, Depression, and the Memory Hole

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The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has a piece on Abilify for depression that illustrates many of psychiatry...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Seroquel, Weight Gain, And the Pursuit of GAD and Depression Indications

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Jim Edwards at BNET dug through the Seroquel documents and found many instances of AZ employees noting that Seroquel causes weight gain....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Abilify For Depression: I'm Not the Only Skeptic

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In April 2008, findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology which claimed that the atypical antipsychotic aripipra...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Big Drugs, Small Brains?

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I've read on and off about brain shrinkage being linked to antipsychotics. I have not paid a lot of attention to research on the topic ...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Atypical Antipsychotics for All, Oregon Chapter

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Oh boy. Here we go again. A study published online ahead of print at the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry notes that among Oregon Medicaid...
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Friday, August 01, 2008

Zyprexa Marketing: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Diagnosis and Hiding Risks

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From an excellent piece at Bloomberg: "The doctor's thinking that he does not see a schizophrenic or bipolar patient,'' [Z...
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Monday, July 28, 2008

Iloperidone: Vanda Shareholder Train Wreck

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Many months back, when shares of Vanda Pharmaceuticals were going for 29 bucks, I warned y'all: Their main product, iloperidone, showed ...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Conflicts, Bad Science, and Corlux

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Recently, the watchful eyes of Charles Grassley have been peering into the bank accounts of big name psychiatrists. Melissa DelBello and J...
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Monday, June 09, 2008

Say It Ain't So Joe

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It appears that Joe Biederman, King of Child Bipolar, has been caught with his hands in the cookie jar. More specifically, the New York Tim...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Antipsychotics: Global Buckets of Money

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Antipsychotics were the sixth best selling class of medications globally in 2007, according to IMS Health . They raked in a cool $20.7 bill...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Furious Seasons is On Fire

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Furious Seasons suffers from a chronic case of excellence, but standing out even more than usual were a quartet of posts today that should ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Academics, Atypicals, and Marketing

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Ahhhh, there is nothing like the sweet smell of investigative journalism in the morning. Robert Farley published a whale of an excellent pi...
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