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Jupiter? A Lot of Gas. Much Remains Hidden.
Statins… Why do we even bother with them?
They are wonder drugs! Didn’t you read he Jupiter trial?
Yes, I did. That’s why I ask. I read it. Supposedly a land mark study. I’d say the land mark is a precipice and I want to erect a warning sign.
We know all statins are problematic in the long run because they shut down very important processes in the body, but very few studies run long enough to document any problems. This particular study appears to have been prematurely ended just before the side effects started to overtake the benefit of the drug.
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Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law
In 1989, Joseph Wesbecker shot dead eight people and injured 12 others before killing himself at his place of work in Kentucky.
Wesbecker had been taking the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant fluoxetine for four weeks before these homicides, and this led to a legal action against the makers of fluoxetine
We review available clinical trial data on paroxetine and sertraline and pharmacovigilance studies of paroxetine and fluoxetine, and outline a series of medico-legal cases involving antidepressants and violence.
Both clinical trial and pharmacovigilance data point to possible links between these drugs and violent behaviours.
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The Institutionalized Quackery of Antidepressants
2008 was a bad year for the pharmaceutical industry and mainstream medicine. Flagship medicines were exposed as being as effective as sugar pills.
The industry was caught with their pants down, burying negative data to make the drugs appear more effective, even hiding data about very serious side effects.
They sell better if people don’t know they are ineffective and deadly. Where is the moral in this story? Read more to find out.
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The Drugs I Need
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Great music by Austin Lounge Lizards.
Inspired animation by The Animation Farm.
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