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Over the past 50 years, there has been an astonishing increase in severe mental illness in the United States. The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine-remembered today as psychiatry’s first “wonder” drug-was introduced into the market. The number of Americans disabled by mental ill­ness has nearly doubled [...]

More and more we hear conflicting data on both the benefits and the harmful effects of statin drugs like Lipitor®. It’s getting more common to hear of persons taking these drugs who suffer liver problems and muscle weakness. Now a new study points to the possibility that lowering cholesterol in the body may actually contribute [...]

Legal liability is the driver that could dramatically hasten the development of “personalized medicine”, according to a newly published article by genetics and law experts.
Broadly, personalized medicine is defined as using information about a person’s genetic makeup to tailor strategies for the detection, treatment or prevention of disease. It can specifically refer to the use [...]

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has announced a proposal requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose to the state what gifts and other financial incentives it provides to healthcare providers in order to market its drugs.
Under Blumenthal’s proposed legislation, pharmaceutical companies would have to disclose to the Commissioner of Public Health the gifts and other financial incentives [...]

Prompted by psychiatrists with their own vested interests in pharmaceutical sales, the media has spun the blame for the rise in the suicide rate for children on the “black box” warning labels placed on antidepressants. This comes from a study that was conducted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)—one of the components of the [...]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked makers of all antidepressant medications to update existing labels to include warnings about increased risks of suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality,in young adults ages 18 to 24 during initial treatment (generally the first one to two months).
The proposed labeling update follows similar labeling changes made [...]

A group of leading pediatricians have petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop drug makers from marketing over-the-counter cough and cold remedies to children.
In some children, unintentional overdoses have caused heart rhythm changes, cardiopulmonary arrest, hallucinations, psychoses, hypertension and seizures, according to research cited in the petition.
“Over-the-counter cough and cold preparations are neither [...]

The manufacturers of three widely-prescribed drugs for treating anemia have received letters from Congress asking them to stop advertising the drugs to consumers, and to report back to Congress about how the drugs are marketed and if kickbacks are being paid to physicians to prescribe them.
The letters from Congress were sent to Amgen, which markets [...]