Sunday, January 14, 2007

Zyprexa Play by Play

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The New York Times has issued a play by play account of what has happened with those now famous Zyprexa documents . How the documents got...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

Breakin'

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I'll likely be away from the blog for a few days. I also may take a few days to reply to emails and comments.
Thursday, January 11, 2007

The Actonel Saga Continues

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Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn continues his battle with Procter & Gamble. The short story is that Procter & Gamble appears to have cooked th...
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Australia Issues Slap on Wrist

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A pharmaceutical trade group, Medicines Australia, has lightly punished some of its own. The authority [Meedicines Australia] received 27 ne...

Just the Zyprexa Facts, Ma'am

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Not the lies from the blogosphere (like this and this ) and the New York Times. Taking a page directly from Wal-Mart, Lilly has now set up...
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Check Out the Health Wonk Review...

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... and much more at Health Care Renewal . The HW Review has links to a number of interesting posts from various healthcare blogs. There i...

Metabolic Syndrome and SSRIs

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A recent study ( Raeder et al ., Dec 2006, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry) indicated that SSRIs were associated with abnominal obesity and e...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

One Drug For Another...

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A recent study (Tiihonene et al., Am J Psychiatry 2007) compared aripiprazole (Abilify), methylphenidate (Ritalin) and placebo in the treat...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

One Quote Says It All

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Dr. Graham Emslie, who has participated in a number of psychiatric drug trials for children, appeared in a brief interview clip on an Austin...

SSRIs and the Zyprexa Docs

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The AHRP blog is smoking hot with posts on SSRIs and the latest developments regarding the Zyprexa documents , which Lilly is still desper...

PharmedOut

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On occasion, lawsuits bring great good to the people. PharmedOut is one such example. At this new site, you can see such jewels as: The ...
Monday, January 08, 2007

One of Those Feel-Good Stories

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The Guardian has a neat story today about people with schizophrenia and depression who appear to benefit from playing soccer (football). An ...

The Creativity Crisis Continues

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I’ve mentioned this theme earlier. PharmaGossip and Merrill Goozner , among others have been banging this drum for much longer than I. Th...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Post Spree Blues

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After going on a binge of posts yesterday, I've got a several more pressing issues to tackle today. So I refer y'all to the PharmaM...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Zyprexa: $500 Million in Lawsuits

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Lilly has agreed to shell out a half billion dollars to settle legal claims brought by those who claimed to be harmed by Zyprexa. There ar...
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Selling Zyprexa

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PharmaGossip has a great link to a video , purportedly of a Lilly drug rep discussing how he sold Zyprexa to docs. You should check out ...
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NASW and Janssen: Strange Bedfellows

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The National Association of Social Workers is coming under some serious heat from a group of its members. Why? Here’s the letter from the ...

I NEED my Quell, Man!

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Over at Furious Seasons, there is a great post about the possibility that for some, Seroquel might be addictive. Apparently, prison inmates...
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Newspeak Update:

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There is yet another article in the New York Times on Zyprexa today. It is not flattering. To make a long and sad story short, a patien...

Time to Vote

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Voting has begun and continues through Sunday January 14th. Your votes count as half and a panel of medical bloggers' votes count for h...