let’s make this point clear: fluoride
is NOT an essential nutrient. The fluoride added to your drinking water
is in fact a chemical waste product! It is NOT something you should use as a
supplement to your diet. …
Author: Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander
Healthy Living & Self-Defense for Vocational and Avocational Motivation and Self-Improvement through Hypnosis, Yoga, Capoeira and Metaphysical Science.
Grassley Probes Financing of Advocacy Group for Mental Health (Bloomberg News)
The group identifies itself as the largest grassroots organization in the U.S.
for people with mental illness and their families. The group came under scrutiny
in 1999, when the magazine Mother Jones reported that 18 drug companies gave the
group $11.7 million from 1996 to mid-1999. …
Is APA treatment advice tainted by pharma ties? (FiercePharma)
Some prominent psychiatrists have come under fire recently for thousands in
unreported income from drugmakers. Critics have said that these influential
doctor-researchers led the way toward off-label use of some powerful psychiatric
drugs–and perhaps their recommendations weren’t objective judgments but biased
by their financial ties to pharma. …
Study questions long-term ADHD med use (FiercePharma)
The latest data confirm that there are “no long-term differences between
children who were continuously medicated and those who were never medicated,”
the Washington Post reports, citing the
Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry. Meanwhile, the number of scrips for ADHD meds grew
to 39.5 million last year from 28.3 million in 2004. …
Approval process lowers the number of kids on atypical precriptions (St. Petersburg Times)
None of the atypicals have been approved by the FDA for use on
preschoolers, and Florida Medicaid guidelines recommend they be used on this age
group “only in the most extraordinary of circumstances.” But those warnings
didn’t slow a tsunami of atypical prescribing. Between 2001 and 2004, the number
of kids under 6 taking atypicals increased 300 percent. For all youths under 19,
the increase was about 250 percent. …
Transgenic tobacco used to create diabetes drug (FierceBiotech)
Transgenic plants are attractive systems for the production of therapeutic
proteins because they offer the possibility of large scale production at low
cost, and they have low maintenance requirements …
Harvard doc promised J&J ‘positive’ trial data (FiercePharma)
according to Biederman’s testimony, he prepared the presentation himself.
Another presentation promised that a study of J&J’s psychiatric drug
Concerta would “extend … positive findings” on the drug to adolescents. …
Pioneer Press: U doctor scrutinized over drug research
The results compelled AstraZeneca to look deeper into the data
for more positives. What they got were negatives. On a rating scale, patients in
these same four studies showed a greater reduction in behavioral symptoms when
taking Haldol instead of Seroquel, according to the analysis. …
The fool on the hill: an essay sharply critical of the psychiatric industry (The Lancet)
Antipsychotics are, at times, cruel drugs. Some cause shaking, salivation,
restlessness, infertility, stiff ness, agitation, and frail bones; others cause
obesity, somnolence, and increase the risk of heart attack, diabetes, and
stroke. Antidepressants also have side-effects, although theirs are typically
less dramatic: sickness, sexual dysfunction, a feeling of being numbed, or
losing one’s personality, and acutely increased risk of suicide. …
Big Pharma eyes rural India for growth (FiercePharma)
Novo Nordisk sends mobile clinics through villages in Goa to screen patients for
diabetes. And Eli Lilly has been working with the Self-Employed Women’s
Association in Ahmedabad to educate people on tuberculosis and encourage them to
seek treatment. …