Drugging Kids With No Verifiable Disease
Psychiatry’s marketing strategy is to invent diagnoses out of thin air and call them diseases as an excuse to prescribe drugs, according to Dr Fred Baughman, author of The ADHD Fraud. Last year, he...
View ArticleLawsuits Needed Against Prescribing Quacks
On April 21, 2009, the Miami Herald reported that a 7-year-old boy in Florida, Gabriel Myers, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a detachable shower head in a bathroom of the foster care...
View ArticleSex and Psych Drugs – Young Couples Beware
Although the adverse effects of women taking psychiatric drugs while pregnant related to birth defects and infant withdrawal syndrome are often discussed or reported, the serious adverse effects on the...
View ArticleSeroquel in the US…Seroquel in the EU…
I was reading Jane’s post on drug companies’ unethical marketing tactics and thinking about Seroquel. As Jane pointed out (and as is reported over at bloomberg.com yesterday), Seroquel’s manufacturer,...
View ArticleKevin Bacon Game helps Decipher Diabetes-related Drug Lawsuits
If you’ve ever wondered why certain drugs (Zyprexa, Avandia, Seroquel, Cymbalta…to name a few) seem to have something in common, but you just can never really put your finger on it, well, it’s time to...
View ArticleSeroquel Settlements Continue…but What Drug is Next?
During the past few weeks we have seen AstraZeneca (AZ) settle some 17,500 Seroquel lawsuits—give or take. That puts them about two thirds of the way through a staggering 26,000 cases currently pending...
View ArticleBig Pharma Lawsuits – Who Got Hit with the Biggest Settlement?
It seems that every month practically, one pharmaceutical company or another makes the news for bending rules around marketing. Mis-marketing, which could also be called consumer fraud, can result in...
View Article5 of the Highest Settlement Awards for 2010
Once again we find ourselves at the end of a year—and it’s been a pretty big year for lawsuits. So, in celebration of the year that was, we’ve compiled some of the biggest settlements—in terms of...
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