... their predictive potential is uncertain, at best.
"we now know that roughly one-third of all elderly adults have such plaques in their brains yet function normally. And eleven clinical t...
Monday, 19 July 2010
...marketing practices, which the Department of Justice said encouraged doctors to use Seroquel for young and elderly people for indications not approved by the FDA.
The settlement will yield abou...
Wednesday, 05 May 2010
... promotional practices have helped expand the use of powerful new antipsychotic drugs for children and the elderly .
AstraZeneca will sign a corporate integrity agreement with the federal gover...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
... (admittedly) engaged in criminal marketing of this drug for unapproved, off-label use in children and the elderly . The concealed risks, buried in company documents, were brought to public light only ...
Thursday, 11 February 2010
...ate for those taking a placebo--Lilly aggressively marketed the drug for off-label use in children and the elderly .
Even more shameful than the pharmaceutical industry’s blatant criminal p...
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
...nal of Medicine, Volume 360:225-235, January 15, 2009
Indeed, the risk of death in elderly patients taking an antipsychotic rises to threefold:
The FDA issued a Black Box lab...
Saturday, 31 October 2009
...neuroleptics—Zyprexa, Risperdal,
Geodon, Seroquel, Abilfy—to coerce innocent children and the elderly
into submission.
In the second half of the twentieth century, Soviet psychi...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
... (PDF) for asenapine includes a boxed warning stating that the drug is "not approved" for use in elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis. Patients with this condition who are treate...
Sunday, 16 August 2009
...
First, doctors will test different doses of the swine flu vaccine in healthy adults, including the elderly — two shots, given 21 days apart. If there are no immediate safety concerns, su...
Saturday, 25 July 2009
...’s blockbuster atypical antipsychotics Seroquel, Zyprexa and Geodon, off label marketed to kids, the elderly , the uncategorizable and the suggestible –are you sure you don’t have rac...
Sunday, 14 June 2009
...been covering Eli Lilly and Zyprexa for several years, reported that in addition to to targeting the elderly for illegal marketing, "the company also pressed doctors to treat disruptive chi...
Friday, 24 April 2009
AHRP proposes a multi-disciplinary team of independent scientists to review ALL of Dr. Joseph Biederman's publications and supporting documents, including: research protocols, consent forms, and the o
Monday, 20 April 2009
...harges that it had illegally marketed its blockbuster drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses to children and the elderly , two populations specially vulnerable to its dangerous side effect. Lilly plead...
Sunday, 08 March 2009
...-even though they are being prescribed for untested, unapproved uses. Expensive antipsychotics are killing elderly patients and undermining neurological and physiological function, inducing life-threa...
Thursday, 05 March 2009
...the finding of a 6-year randomized clinical trial conducted by the Veterans Administration involving 1,131 elderly veterans. 566 were randomized to test tretinoin cream (0.1%), and 565 to placebo. Tre...
Thursday, 26 February 2009
...reductions in the use of antipsychotics for off-label indications—in particular for children and the elderly . “In the absence of clearly established benefits…the risk of a fatal ...
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
...rrent abusive use of psychotropic drugs in nursing homes, The Los Angeles Times reports (below) that three elderly residents in a California nursing home were allegedly killed by the antipsychotic dru...
Thursday, 19 February 2009
...a dangerous drug: it is not approved for children. It has a double black box warning about death for elderly patients and a suicide warning for children, adolescents and young adults. See FDA dr...
Monday, 16 February 2009
...l in causing severe harm to tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people—including children and the elderly —some of whom have been killed by the drug. “Indeed, internal documents s...
Sunday, 15 February 2009
...inducing drug to cause the syndrome." "Serotonin syndrome can occur at any age, including in the elderly , in newborns and even in dogs. Since 1998, the poison control center at the American ...
Monday, 26 February 2007
...own research. Other documents outlined a marketing scheme to encourage physicians to prescribe Zyprexa for elderly patients with early signs of dementia. This strategy not only had no clinical evidenc...
Thursday, 08 February 2007
... added the strongest warning available, a black box, stating that the drugs increased the risk of death in elderly patients with dementia. The warnings did nothing to slow off-label prescribing of Zyp...
Tuesday, 06 February 2007
... The House voted Jan. 12 to require the Medicare program, which provides health care for the elderly and disabled, to negotiate prices with drug companies; five congressional comm...
Thursday, 01 February 2007
...s, which can cause a drop in blood pressure and fainting in some people. "Depression is common in the elderly , and the elderly population is increasing in Canada and most of the Western world,&qu...
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
...hyperlipidemia in women. JAMA 2004; 291: 2243-52. 7 Shepherd J, Blauw GJ, Murphy MB, et al. Pravastatin in elderly individuals at risk of vascular disease (PROSPER): a randomised controlled trial. Lan...
Sunday, 21 January 2007
...ous untested combination drug cocktails. Vulnerable populations--in particular, children, adolecsents, the elderly and people with disabilities--are at special risk of abusive prescribing. See: AHRP w...
Sunday, 07 January 2007
...-polar disorder--for which it was approved-- but this drug is being widely prescribed for children and the elderly . The drug poses life-threatening risks that neither prescribing physicians nor patien...
Tuesday, 19 December 2006
...-polar disorder--for which it was approved-- but this drug is being widely prescribed for children and the elderly . The drug poses life-threatening risks that neither prescribing physicians nor patien...
Monday, 18 December 2006
...D. "Caution is necessary in the off-label use of atypical antipsychotics, especially when used in the elderly and when the evidence for effectiveness is not good.'' Atypical antipsychotic...
Monday, 18 December 2006
... representative who had discussed the hypothetical Martha with him. The representative “presented an elderly female patient who was presented to her physician by her family complaining of insomn...
Monday, 18 December 2006
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