That’s bad news for the companies that make leading atypicals–Johnson & Johnson Risperdal, Eli Lilly (Zyprexa), Bristol-Myers Squibb (Abilify),Pfizer (Geodon), AstraZeneca(Seroquel). Prescription rates for these meds have enjoyed a
strong growth curve, increasing more than fivefold among children over the past
15 years. …
Eli Lilly will face a class-action suit over Zyprexa, now that a federal judge
has certified a group of insurance companies, pension funds, and unions that
want the drugmaker to repay them for the billions they spent on the
controversial antipsychotic drug. …
…The antipsychotic action may be secondary to other consequences in the brain
that evolve over a period of several weeks. …
“Serotonin transporter binding potential values were significantly higher in all
investigated brain regions in individuals investigated in the fall and winter
compared with those investigated in the spring and summer,” the authors write. …
Some say the fact that a few quick medication-monitoring visits pay much better
than a longer psychotherapy session conducted in the same amount of time could
be the reason for the switch …
Look at things from a different point of view. Why not eat a horse? They say,
“Well, that would be cruel,” but eating a cow is not cruel. They say, “Yes, that
is fine.” The only reason that they can say that and, by the way, if you eat
cows this is undoubtedly true for you — the only reason you can say that is
that you have never been to a slaughterhouse. You have never actually met your
meat, so to speak. You have never seen what really happens back there. If you …