Herding Women
Since 2005, Paroxetine, first marketed by GlaxoSmithKline as Seroxat/Paxil, has carried warnings of birth defect risks. These risks led to litigation in the US – but not elsewhere. In the first case...
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Let’s Do the AbbVie Again
Slightly over three months ago, the idea of an AbbVie was born. She was named after the pharmaceutical company AbbVie – until recently Abbott Laboratories. She was born from the union of a legal action...
View ArticleI’m not pre-pregnant. I just have a womb.
Editorial Note: Two months ago we were deep in a controversy about Antidepressants and Birth Defects. (See The Dark is for Mushrooms, not for Women, and Preventing Precaution and Mumsnet). Many women...
View ArticleAntidepressants and Autism: Time to Worry?
Editorial Note: This post by Adam Urato from Boston picks up one of the most important issues of our time. It touches on one of the most sensitive issues of all – should anyone tell a mother-to-be what...
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Editorial Note: A study published this week suggests that the issue of birth defects on antidepressants rather than suicide or homicide may yet end up as the Mark of Cain by which these drugs are...
View ArticleThalidomide: From Disaster to Recovery
A Quiet Man A few months ago Martin Johnson retired as the Director of Britain’s Thalidomide Trust. Under his stewardship, UK Thalidomiders have become a major force for global drug safety. In a world...
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The Persecution of Heretics
Editorial Note: For the past two months while there have been a series of authors on RxISK posts, David Healy has run a Persecution of Heretics series on davidhealy.org. The heresy is that drugs come...
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Better to Die RxISKing it
Editorial Note: This post continues from last week’s Persecution of Heretics. Its about how only a Popular Movement with those suffering adverse effects on drugs speaking up can save us now. It...
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Massacre of the Innocents
Editorial Note: This post is by Adam Urato. There are other Adam Urato posts on RxISK (See HERE and HERE), about the use of antidepressants in pregnancy and by women of child-bearing years. This post...
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Massacre of Innocence
Paradise Lost Any post about pregnancy pulls in more than the average amount of complexity. We had a series of posts on the risks of antidepressants in pregnancy at the end of last year The Dark is...
View ArticleThe Pre-Pregnancy Dilemma Survey: Part 1
This is the first of two five minute surveys covering dilemmas that have been thrown up by the Panorama program on antidepressants, anticonvulsants and birth defects. The dilemma arises from the fact...
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Herding Women
Since 2005, Paroxetine, first marketed by GlaxoSmithKline as Seroxat/Paxil, has carried warnings of birth defect risks. These risks led to litigation in the US – but not elsewhere. In the first case...
View ArticleI’m not pre-pregnant. I just have a womb.
Editorial Note: Two months ago we were deep in a controversy about Antidepressants and Birth Defects. (See The Dark is for Mushrooms, not for Women, Preventing Precaution and Mumsnet). Many women...
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Lullaby
Editorial Note: A study published this week suggests that the issue of birth defects on antidepressants rather than suicide or homicide may yet end up as the Mark of Cain by which these drugs are...
View ArticleThalidomide: From Disaster to Recovery
A quiet man A few months ago Martin Johnson retired as the Director of Britain’s Thalidomide Trust. Under his stewardship, UK Thalidomiders have become a major force for global drug safety. In a world...
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Massacre of the Innocents
Editorial Note: This post is by Adam Urato. There are other Adam Urato posts on RxISK (see here and here) about the use of antidepressants in pregnancy and by women of child-bearing years. This post...
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Massacre of Innocence
Paradise lost Any post about pregnancy pulls in more than the average amount of complexity. We had a series of posts on the risks of antidepressants in pregnancy at the end of last year The Dark is for...
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The Devil Doesn’t Have All The Best Tunes
This weeks Observer Review contains an interview (below) with Mikey Argy (above) to link up with the release of Attacking the Devil, a movie about the thalidomide story. The photo of Mikey here...
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