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4/19/2001 – April Edition of ICFDA now Online

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Twenty-three new articles from the past month have just been
selected from newspapers across the country and posted our
ICFDA site at http://www.drugawareness.org.

Included among them are two articles that offer proof there are
safer ways to treat depression then by taking pills. One is from
Newsweek entitled “Nourishing Your Brain,” which discusses
studies showing that fats in fish and walnuts can ward off
depression. Another from Reuters showing how aerobic
exercise effectively treats depression.

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4/18/2001 – Paxil Is Approved for Anxiety Disorder?!

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WASHINGTON, April 16 (Bloomberg News) â€” Glaxo- SmithKline P.L.C. has won the
Food and Drug Administration’s approval to market its antidepressant Paxil
for treating general anxiety disorder, a new use for the drug.

That makes Paxil the first drug in its class to be approved for the
condition, which affects about 10 million Americans and involves excessive,
often debilitating worrying, the company said today.

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4/17/2001 – Snub to Prozac critic upsets teachers

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The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it is disturbed by the
University of Toronto’s decision to revoke the job offer it made to an
internationally recognized psychiatrist after he criticized a drug company.

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4/15/2001 – Prozac critic sees U of T job revoked

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A world-renowned scientist saw a job offer at the University of Toronto
evaporate after warning that the popular antidepressant Prozac may trigger
suicide in some patients.

The drug’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly, is an important private donor to a
mental-health research institute affiliated with the university.

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4/13/2001 – Drugs not genes cause birth defects in babies of epileptic women

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Birth defects in the babies of women who take medicine for epilepsy while
they are pregnant are caused by the drugs and not by the epilepsy, according
to new research reported in the US.

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4/13/2001 – Another school shooting & antidepressants

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Elizabeth Bush told the ABC News program “20/20” that the shooting has played
over repeatedly in her mind since March 7, the day she shot Kim Marchese at
the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann Junior-Senior High School.

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4/09/2001 – Ghostwriting Articles for Medical Journals

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April 5 (CBS) Amidst the billion-dollar competition to create the newest
blockbuster drug, there’s one thing worth more than all the ads money can
buy: a single positive mention in a respected medical journal. Doctors rely
so heavily on what’s printed in journals that a drug’s success or failure may
be directly affected.

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4/9/2001 – FDA Doc Claims Fen-Phen Cover Up

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April 7 (CBS) The drug company that manufactured “fen-phen,” a diet
medication linked to heart ailments, covered up problems with the drug that
emerged during Food and Drug Administration testing, a former FDA scientist
tells CBS News.

Fen-phen was removed from the market in 1997. Thousands of people who took
the drug have sued American Home Products of Madison, N.J., for health
problems they claim the drug caused.

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4/9/2001 – Back-to-back documentaries tonight and tomorrow.

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By pure coincidence, two documentaries on two different
channels are arriving back to back tonight and tomorrow to
examine the same issue: the widening and sometimes
harrowing use of psychoactive drugs in America to modify
children’s behavior. Suffice it to say that the programs ˜ the first
on A&E, the other on PBS ˜ are in many ways redundant.

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4/08/2001 – A&E's Investigative Reports-Drugging our children

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From one of our subscribers in Canada we have been notified that A&E’s
Investigative Reports will air a program regarding the drug experiments on
our kids. It will be on Monday, April 9/01. It is 6 or 7 pm Pacific time.