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Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine

Author: Editorial 28th June 2023 0 Comments

The producers of this 50 minute video say: “‘Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful,’ Marcia Angell wrote in 2009. The statement was less a revelation than something many already knew, but it made waves because…
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Dr. Marcia Angell, drug trials, evidence-based medicine, Jason Fung, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, videos

The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2023 0 Comments

This “ open letter by healthcare professionals ” calls for specialist NHS services to support patients harmed by taking prescription medications. Published in the British Medical Journal, the letter begins: “This week, BBC1’s Panorama drew sharp attention to the problem of prescribed drug dependence and…
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antidepressants, BBC Panorama, benzodiazepines, BMJ, British Medical Journal, drug dependency, drug withdrawal, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Public Health England

The Antidepressant Story

Author: Editorial 21st June 2023 0 Comments

This 1 hour TV programme comes from the BBC’s Panorama team (investigative journalism unit). The programme makers say: “In the UK, around one in seven now take an antidepressant. Globally they have made the pharmaceutical industry billions. When the current generation…
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antidepressant side-effects, antidepressants, BBC Panorama, Pfizer, pharmaceutical industry, Sertraline, videos

Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper

Author: Editorial 19th June 2023 0 Comments

This article by Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Horowitz has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “We recently published a paper finding that the serotonin hypothesis of depression (the idea that depression is caused by low serotonin or reduced serotonin activity)…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, Joanna Moncrieff, Mad in America, Mark Horowitz, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Research, serotonin

What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review

Author: Editorial 24th May 2023 0 Comments

This review by Marc-André Gagnon and Miaoran Dong has been published in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods. The abstract says: “Objective To identify all scientific papers that used internal industry documents in the pharmaceutical sector and analyze what and how the…
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Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, drug trials, Marc-André Gagnon, Miaoran Dong, pharmaceutical industry, Research

Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of bipolar disorder

Author: Editorial 21st November 2022 0 Comments

This account by JP Marshall of part of a research study has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Not long ago, as part of a research study, I asked six young people how it was for them to…
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antidepressants, biomedical model, bipolar, diagnostic labelling, JP Marshall, Mad in the UK, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Book Review: ‘Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription’ by Michael P. Hengartner

Author: Editorial 16th November 2022 0 Comments

This book review by Marion Brown has been published by BJGP Life (which publishes comment and opinion on research and clinical care for the primary care community): “Hengartner begins ‘Over my academic career, I went into different stages of belief and disbelief.’…
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antidepressants, BJGP Life, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, DSM, evidence-based practice, Marion Brown, Michael Hengartner, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Celexa, Lexapro & the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine

Author: Editorial 28th October 2022 0 Comments

This article has been published on the website of American legal firm Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman. It begins: “‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise to deceive!” From Walter Scott’s epic poem, Marmion. This is the story of…
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antidepressants, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, celexa, citalopram, evidence-based medicine, Lexapro, pharmaceutical industry, SSRIs, USA

The illusion of evidence based medicine

Author: Editorial 17th October 2022 0 Comments

“Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia, argue these authors” This article by Jon Jureidini and Leemon B. McHenry has been published in the British Medical Journal. It begins (with footnotes excluded, but…
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British Medical Journal, clinical drugs trials, evidence-based medicine, Jon Jureidini, Leemon B. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, Research

Are We Homogenizing The Global View Of A Normal Mind?

Author: Editorial 22nd September 2022 0 Comments

This article from 2013 comes from P. Murali Doraiswamy (Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Division, Duke University Health System) and has been published by the Edge. It begins: “Should we worry about the consequences of exporting America’s view of an unhealthy…
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Culture & Society, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, Edge, P. Murali Doraiswamy, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, USA