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Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company that
makes Sarafem, has been marketing the new treatment with such gusto that
there are jokes about the company exhibiting obsessive-compulsive disorder.
It seems there isnt a magazine to be picked up or a channel to be surfed
that isnt running a Sarafem advertisement.
“Clinical Drug Trial Dangers?”
On Sunday, April 1, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, CBS 60 Minutes will air a
segment entitled “Of Mice And Men.” Steve Kroft reports that
patients taking experimental drugs in clinical trials often don’t
know the doctors administering them are usually being paid by
the drug companies and that the drugs can sometimes worsen
their health.
At Harvard, a psychiatrist is studying whether the hallucinogenic cactus
peyote creates any long-term memory or attention problems in the American
Indians who take the drug as part of religious rituals.
Now that the ad has run in Medscape encouraging doctors to prescribe it (as
if they needed any encouragement in their mass drugging of America!) you may
want to begin checking the obituaries for large numbers of the elderly dying.
Of course it will save the government lots of $$$ in Social Security payments!
Isn’t it interesting that 20/20 nor 60 Minutes did not even hint at this
issue in their show on Mad Cow disease in America? Even our local ABC station
here went on after the 20/20 piece to assure us that we have safe meat in
Utah when it was the same station who ran a piece a couple of years ago on
the city official who died of Mad Cow.
Medical students frequently face pressure to act
unethically and most say they have seen their clinical teachers acting
unethically as well, a study by researchers at the University of Toronto has
found.
The next piece of the puzzle would be to learn that high serotonin is linked
to the leaky gut. I believe that Dr. Michael Gershon at Columbia Presbyterian
has given us that information in his research on intestinal problems and
SSRIs, indicating that these side effects come from the high serotonin. The
answers to this connection should be found in his new book “The Gut Brain”.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A US ophthalmologist says there
appears to be a very small risk that men taking the
impotence drug Viagra could suffer permanent vision
loss, but the firm that makes the drug on Friday
played down the reported threat.
A new public health survey reveals that nearly half of the people
being treated with antidepressants experience side effects and
55% of those patients stop taking their medication, rather than
talk to their doctors about the issue.
Hear Dr. Ann Tracy on THE BOB DORNAN SHOW, broadcast
live at 9:00am ET, 6:00am PT, Wednesday, February 28th. For
stations in your area, or to listen via the web, at
www.bobdornan.com.