The RSPCA is sounding the alarm as yet another drug – an antidepressant – is made available to our increasingly ‘pill-popping’ pets by pharmaceutical companies. The Society fears the pill could merely disguise behavioural problems rather than treat the cause.
It’s also vital that pet owners realise that laboratory animals – including dogs – often suffer […]
Madison County, Illinois April 26, 2007: Madison County Associate Judge Ralph Mendelsohn today approved and amended the national pediatric Paxil class settlement which will provide more payment to people who paid for Paxil for use by a minor. The case was based on documents showing that GSK had determined that Paxil failed to out-perform placebo […]
Cho Seung Hui is Potential 19th School Shooter Taking Violence-Inducing Psychiatric Drugs–While Pushing for Brave New World of Mandatory “Treatment”
While the families of the victims of the Virginia Tech (VT) massacre begin the process of grieving and recovery of their tragic loss and the nation searches for answers to yet another senseless school shooting, the […]
The death of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech contains a number of lessons, many of which should have been learned from previous incidences, such as the Columbine high school shootings. Having treated a number of gunshot wounds in my neurosurgical practice over 25 years, I can appreciate the personal horror it entails, for […]
NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eli Lilly and Co., which built its reputation on insulin and antidepressant Prozac, has launched its first prescription medicine for pets.
The company will market Reconcile, a beef-flavoured chewable tablet that helps treat dogs for separation anxiety, in the United States.
The medicine is supposed to be used in combination with behaviour management training […]
Los Angeles, CA: Karen Barth Menzies is a partner of the Los Angeles based law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Goldman & Menzies and heads the firm’s Pharmaceutical Antidepressant Litigation Department. An activist and consumer advocate, she has been involved with SSRI-induced suicide/violence litigation involving Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft for 15 years and she is […]
Q: My mother was admitted to the hospital a few weeks ago for dehydration, acute bronchitis and pneumonia. During the admission, they checked her blood level of Coumadin and discovered it was about 10 times higher than normal.
The doctors in the emergency room were shocked, as were Mom and I. The doctor said had Mom […]
BILLINGS (AP) — A middle school guidance counselor who was given 30 days in jail after police caught him standing on a child’s desk, holding a video camera and peeping into the home of a former student, is appealing his sentence.
Paul Patek, 39, pleaded no contest in February to misdemeanor charges of prowling and surreptitious […]
The FDA has issued numerous public health advisories and black box warnings over the past several years about the increased risk of suicidality associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants, but many doctors ignore them.
In October 2004, the FDA added a black box warning about an increased risk of suicidality in children and adolescents […]