Food & Drug Administration (FDA) – A New Vision for Mental Health

It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Author: Editorial 10th January 2024 0 Comments

This article from David Healy and Harriet Vogt has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “There is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. Even fewer spot…
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From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?

Author: Editorial 7th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Maryanne Demasi has been published in the British Medical Journal: “Patients and doctors expect drug regulators to provide an unbiased, rigorous assessment of investigational medicines before they hit the market. But do they have sufficient independence from the companies…
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The Emperor’s New Drugs : Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect

Author: Editorial 29th November 2021 0 Comments

This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes a lecture video from Prof. Irving Kirsch (Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), together with…
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Prophylactic effects or withdrawal reactions? An analysis of time-to-event data from antidepressant relapse prevention trials submitted to the FDA

Author: Editorial 20th August 2021 0 Comments

Prof. Peter Gøtzsche has tweeted : “When you stop taking a depression pill and feel bad, psychiatrists tell you that you have relapsed. Not so. By far most, perhaps even all your troubles, are withdrawal symptoms … Never stop abruptly. This…
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What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe

Author: Editorial 2nd February 2018 0 Comments

TED Talk (13 minute video) … The video’s producers say: “When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive…
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