The atypical antipsychotics keep taking a beating on this site (1, 2) -- lots of hype for these medications treating, um, everything, yet little supporting data.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Ari-Pimp-Razole: Science and Marketing Collide
The atypical antipsychotics keep taking a beating on this site (1, 2) -- lots of hype for these medications treating, um, everything, yet little supporting data.
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And speaking of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), check out this excellent article about how BMS fudged the clinical trials for their antidepressant Serzone:
Hard to Swallow, by Thomas J. Moore
The real interesting stuff starts about half-way down the second page of the article.
Note: The article originally appeared in a magazine called the Washingtonian back in 1997. It's apparently not available on their website anymore. The link posted above will take you to the appropriate page on The Wayback Machine (Internet archive). Sometimes the archive site is very slow, so give it a chance to load.
This whole investigative piece is well worth reading. Thomas J. Moore does an excellent job in revealing some of the underhanded tactics used by Big Pharma.
Have you seen this site? This is its Abilify page. Quite interesting:
http://patientsville.com/medication/abilify_side_effects.htm
It has summaries of each adverse drug reaction submitted to the FDA.
Abilify it doesn't make pleasant reading.
I thinks its also necessary to search in the alphabetical section to get reports listed by 'other' names of drugs, generic, other countries names for a drug etc, to get a more complete picture.
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