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FDA Protects SSRI Makers With Misleading Warning
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 4:41 pm | Evelyn Pringle
On May 2, 2007, the FDA announced its most misleading warnings to date about selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants when it said the drug makers would revise the current black box warning of an increased risk of suicidality in children and ... More >>
Doctors Miss Life-Threatening Serotonin Syndrome
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 9:53 am | Evelyn Pringle
In addition to recent reports that the drugs work no better than sugar pills, the latest warnings added to the long list of adverse events linked to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants have focused on birth defects, suicide risks and ... More >>
Mission Accomplished in Iraq by Bremer and CPA
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 1:04 am | Evelyn Pringle
When President Bush announced "Mission Accomplished," and the end of the war in May 2003, he also said we would help the citizens of Iraq rebuild their country. "Now that the dictator's gone," he stated, "we and our coalition partners are helping ... More >>
Iraq Money Trail to Bush Cronies Must End
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 12:38 am | Evelyn Pringle
It's time for Americans to face the cold hard truth that nothing will be accomplished by allowing the daily carnage in Iraq to continue, and if Bush has his way, our young people will be dying in this war profiteering scheme until hell freezes over. Congress ... More >>
Congress Must Cut Off Bush Family War Profits
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 4:07 pm | Evelyn Pringle
On Monday, April 9, 2007, the Boston Herald reported that the US military had announced the Easter weekend deaths of 10 more American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday. The Associated Press reports that, since the war began in March 2003, over 3,000 ... More >>
Pringle: Troops Continue to Die For Bush’s Lies
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:47 am | Evelyn Pringle
On May 1, 2003, in a spectacle televised worldwide, President George W Bush portrayed himself as a brave fighter pilot when he strutted across the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln to announce mission accomplished and an end to major combat operations in ... More >>
Drug Makers Want Women of Childbearing Years
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 2:20 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Drug makers are hell-bent on recovering the antidepressant customer base represented by women of childbearing years. With doctors now reluctant to prescribe the drugs to pregnant women, a new recruitment scheme has cropped up. Screening programs are ... More >>
ADHD Drug Warnings Come Too Late For Many
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 3:16 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The makers of drugs used to treat attention disorders have known about the serious health risks associated with the medications for years but instead of warning the public, the industry has consistently focused its efforts on expanding the market ... More >>
Suicide Risk of Neurontin Kept Hidden for Years
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 5:21 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The all-time poster child for a drug illegally promoted for off-label uses, is Neurontin, marketed by Warner-Lambert, and its Parke-Davis division, until Pfizer acquired the company in 2000. More >>
Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Sale of Zyprexa
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 9:01 am | Evelyn Pringle
On February 23, 2007, a new grass roots advocacy group issued a press release to rally support for attorney, Jim Gottstein, in his legal battle with Eli Lilly over his role in providing secret company documents obtained in litigation to the media ... More >>
Off-Label Sales of SSRIs Leads To More Litigation
Friday, 23 February 2007, 12:17 am | Evelyn Pringle
Off-label prescribing of prescription drugs overall is widespread in the US, but nowhere is it more prevalent than with the antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. A study in the June 2005, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, ... More >>
Trail of Paxil Suicides Leads To GlaxoSmithKline
Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 10:16 am | Evelyn Pringle
On January 29, 2007, BBC-One broadcasted, “Secrets of the Drug Trials,” a Panorama program based on an investigation by reporter, Shelley Jofre, which revealed how GlaxoSmithKline misled doctors into prescribing Paxil off-label to children, even ... More >>
Nobody Buys Lilly's Innocence Routine
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 10:45 am | Evelyn Pringle
Eli Lilly is having trouble obtaining and retaining insurance coverage for Zyprexa litigation because apparently insurance companies are no longer willing to buy its wide eyed innocence routine when it comes to the company's fraudulent off-label marketing ... More >>
Zyprexa Judge Sends Invite to NY Times Reporter
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 12:18 am | Evelyn Pringle
The judge in the Zypexa secret document case has sent a New York Times reporter an invitation to attend a hearing in the on-going Eli Lilly fiasco in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. More >>
Evelyn Pringle: Eli Lilly The Habitual Offender
Saturday, 27 January 2007, 10:52 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The revelations that Eli Lilly concealed the side effects of Zyprexa and promoted the drug for unapproved uses is not newly discovered misconduct. It is a persistent pattern of conduct indicative of a nasty habit that needs breaking. More >>
Evelyn Pringle: FDA Feeling The Heat
Friday, 19 January 2007, 10:44 am | Evelyn Pringle
Over the past year, the Bush administration's FDA has been the focus of non-stop investigations and with the Democrats in control of Congress, a long overdue overhaul of the agency is in the cards. More >>
Evelyn Pringle: The Bush Administration's FDA
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 10:17 am | Evelyn Pringle
Since the Bush administration took control of the FDA, editorial pages in the major newspapers, along with respected medical journals, have broadcast outrage over the agency’s failure to protect the public from an industry focused on profits only. More >>
Evelyn Pringle: The Bush Administration's FDA
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 9:54 am | Evelyn Pringle
Since the Bush administration took control of the FDA, editorial pages in the major newspapers, along with respected medical journals, have broadcast outrage over the agency’s failure to protect the public from an industry focused on profits only. More >>
Zyprexa Judge - Which Media Have 1st. Amd. Rights
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:11 pm | Evelyn Pringle
The judge issuing injunctions in the Eli Lilly-Zyprexa-Documents case has decided that reporters at the New York Times enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment but that other reporters and media outlets do not. More >>
Attorney Asks Eli Lilly Issue Warning on Zyprexa
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:47 pm | Evelyn Pringle
Attorney, Jim Gottstein, is calling for Eli Lilly to issue a Dr Doctor letter to warn prescribing physicians about the serious health risks associated with Zyprexa, which has become Lilly's top selling drug even though it is only approved to treat ... More >>
