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By Ann Tracy on February 17, 2010
Why would Pfizer spend $100 million on two-minute TV ads that use a minute of
that time admitting that their drug Chantix can cause “changes in behavior,
hostility, agitation, depressed mood,” “weird, unusual or strange dreams,” and
“suicidal thoughts or actions”?
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Antidepressant Side Effects, antidepressants, Anxiety Attacks, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Designer Drugs, Different Color, Dr. Tracy, Drug Advertising, Drugawareness, Femi, Fibromyalgia, New Drugs, Nicotine, psychosis, Restless Leg Syndrome, Sarafem, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, Thyroid Problems, Zoloft |
By Ann Tracy on February 9, 2010
“Let’s set the record straight
once and for all — Brittany was not taking any medication for her mood, for
anorexia,” Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack said. “It’s utterly ridiculous
that these rumors have perpetuated.”
Investigators found prescription
medication for depression, seizures, anxiety and pain. Monjack told Lauer his
late wife used Vicoprofen and Sarafem during her menstrual cycle. “Most of the
medications are mine. I suffer from seizures,” Monjack declared. The
screenwriter began to stutter and added, “I suffer from, you know, heart… my
heart stopped on December 3rd when we landed from Puerto Rico.”
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Anna Nicole Smith, Brittany Murphy, Dr. Tracy, Drugawareness, Fen-Phen, Heart Valve Problems, Heart Valves, Increase Serotonin, Medication For Depression, Menstrual Cycle, Muscle Tissue, Organ Failure, Prescription Medication, Prozac, Robitussin, Sarafem, Sarafem Prozac, Serotonin Levels, SSRI, Stutter, Vicoprofen |
By Ann Tracy on January 20, 2010
Simon Monjack, left, husband of deceased actress Brittany
Murphy and Murphy’s mother Sharon pose with a portrait of the actress in Los
Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Monjack said the portrait by photographer Bruce
Weber was Murphy’s favorite photo of herself. (AP Photo/Chris
Pizzello)
A month after Brittany Murphy’s mysterious death, her mother and husband say
they are convinced the actress died of natural causes, not drugs or an eating
disorder.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sharon Murphy and Simon
Monjack said that Murphy did not use drugs or alcohol and that they are awaiting
a determination from coroner’s officials that will end speculation prescription
medicine caused Murphy’s death on Dec. 20 at age 32.
Monjack said some of the prescription medications found in the couple’s
Hollywood Hills home belonged to him.
Murphy had mitral valve prolapse, a common condition where a heart valve does
not properly close, but doctors said the actress “would live a long and healthy
life,” Monjack said.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Anna Nicole Smith, Anxiety Medication, Anxiety Medications, Brittany Murphy, Cause Of Death, Daniel Murphy, Dextromethorphan, Dr. Tracy, Flu Like Symptoms, Heart Failure, Heart Valve, Heart Valves, Increase Serotonin Levels, Mitral Valve Prolapse, Organ Failure, Robitussin, Sarafem, Sarafem Prozac, Serotonin Syndrome, Toxic Reaction, Treating The Flu |
By retoddb on April 7, 2001
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.
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Battle Hymn, Billboard Charts, Born Singer, Dangerous Side Effects, Disc Jockey, Dr Ann, Drug Awareness, Eli Lilly, Insight Mag, Insight Magazine, Insightmag, International Coalition, Kelly Patricia, Medicine, Mental Disorder, Miracle Pill, Omeara, Pharmaceutical Giant, Same Active Ingredient, Sarafem, Three Decades |
By retoddb on March 13, 2001
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.
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Antidepressant Side Effects, Carla Cantor, Cbs Health, Detailers, Drug Choices, Drug Samples, Eli Lilly, Everett Clinic, Experience Side Effects, Health Survey, Joseph P Shapiro, New Public Health, Pharmaceutical Business, Pharmaceutical Sales Reps, Pmdd, Purple Pills, Sarafem, Severe Pms, Stacey Schultz, Tara Parker Pope, Wall Street Journal |
By retoddb on February 24, 2001
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.
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Commu, Dr Ann, Drug Awareness, Drugawareness, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline, Health Journal, International Coalition, Journal Questions, Mental Disorder, Pmdd, Purple Pills, Sarafem, Sarafem Prozac, Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Severe Pms, SSRIs, Tara Parker Pope, Television Ads, Wall Street Journal |
By Ann Tracy on December 29, 2000
A visibly irritated woman yanks on a supermarket shopping cart that’s stuck
in its stack while a soothing female voice-over recites a litany of PMS
symptoms. She asks, “Think it’s PMS? Think again. . . . It could be PMDD.”
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Administration Approval, Antidepressant Prozac, Carla Spartos, Clinical Psychology, College Of Physicians, Columbia University, Daily Diary, Depression Anxiety, Eli Lilly, Eli Lilly And Company, Food And Drug Administration, Interpersonal Relationships, Laura Miller, Lilly And Company, Menstruating Women, Mood Symptoms, Physicians And Surgeons, Pms Symptoms, Sarafem, Villagevoice |
By admin on July 24, 2000
Once again we thank Vera Hassner Sharav, President, CIRCARE: Citizens for Responsible Care & Research, a Human Rights organization, for passing on this interesting commentary on Prozac’s name being changed to Sarafem for PMS. The dangers of interaction leading to serotonin syndrome – a life threatening complication of serotonergic medications – is most obvious in [...]
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged PMS, Prozac, Sarafem |
By admin on July 7, 2000
Sarafem, what a nice sounding name for such a deadly drug. How many patients will know that they are really getting Prozac with a different name? Why is a name change necessary? If it said Prozac on the label, would the patient take it? We will not know with the FDA allowing Lilly to change [...]
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER, Sarafem |
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