2/27/2001 – Ann Blake-Tracy on Bob Dornan Show
Hear Dr. Ann Tracy on THE BOB DORNAN SHOW, broadcast
live at 9:00am ET, 6:00am PT, Wednesday, February 28th. For
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www.bobdornan.com.
February 2001
2/25/2001 – How drug firms reach the heart of government – stalking US corridor
“However, the real debate has arguably not been put before the American
public with any clarity, because the extent to which the pharmaceutical
industry in the US has been able to set the policy-making agenda remains
invisible to the average voter.”
2/24/2001 – Wall Street Journal Questions PMDD & Sarafem (Prozac)
IS SEVERE PMS, or premenstrual syndrome, a mental illness? Some
pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists are treating it as one. In new
television ads, drug maker Eli Lilly is promoting the drug Sarafem to treat
the
problem, now dubbed Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). But the
pink and purple pills aren’t a new drug — they are simply repackaged
Prozac,
the popular antidepressant.
02/20/2001 – Drug Trials – Give us your children!
Gage Stevens might have taken his first steps that bleak morning in November
1999. And by his first birthday, he would probably have outgrown his one
persistent ailment – acid reflux. Instead, he lay in the Allegheny County,
Pa., morgue.
Hope through alternatives even after long-term use of Prozac
“The doctors said that I needed the drugs to pull through. I finally said, ‘No more drugs!'”
Plagued by Side Effects after Paxil, then Cipramil
“I will never ever take this form of medication again.”
Prozac Killed My Son
“I want to join others who are trying to remove Prozac from the hands of doctors who hand these pills out like ‘candy to kids’.”
02/15/2001 – Writing May Be on Wall for Ritalin
A lawsuit challenging the validity of the science behind mental
illness and psychotropic drugs will have repercussions for drug makers as
well as for the mental-health establishment.
02/15/2001 – RISKING KIDS' HEALTH FOR SAKE OF SCIENCE – AT WHAT COST?
TWO city research institutions will extend their tentacles into our
communities today, looking for hundreds of kids, some as young as 3, to use
as guinea pigs.
The experiments, to determine the safety and efficacy of Ritalin in
preschoolers, have advocates up in arms – they think researchers are playing
fast and loose with the brains of children.
02/15/2001 – Doctors Say Drug Trial's Approval was Backdated
The Nigerian doctor who supervised a 1996 Pfizer Inc. drug experiment on
desperately ill children said in an interview that his office created a
backdated ethics approval document that the American pharmaceutical company
later used to satisfy U.S. regulators and to justify its conduct of the
human testing.
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