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RxISK CEO, Dr. David Healy, talks to radio show host Dr. Lorraine Hurley on prescription drug risk. Click here to listen.   RxISK Media Relations officer, David Carmichael tells personal tragic story on prescription drug induced psychosis to radio show host … [Read More...]

May 5, 2013 By Jerome Burne Could alcohol get a licence as a drug for depression? How do you test for the safety of a drug that causes the same side effects as the disease it is used to treat? … [Read More...]

APRIL 28, 2013 BY JEROME BURNE Earlier this week the Daily Mail  published my feature on side-effects and how patients aren’t properly warned about them. Antidepressants, for instance, can cause compulsive heavy drinking but you wouldn’t know it from the drug information leaflet.  The … [Read More...]

There are many roads one can travel on within the world of medicine. Some take their training down the pathway of clinical practice and patient care. Other will steer themselves toward the scholarly street of science and studies. A few … [Read More...]

The disturbing side-effects even the manufacturers don’t know about By JEROME BURNE PUBLISHED: 23:50 GMT, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 06:41 GMT, 23 April 2013 Several years ago, Anne-Marie Cook, a 40-year-old health care assistant from Surrey, was prescribed the antidepressant Seroxat after she’d become … [Read More...]

A B.C. class-action suit against the makers of Paxil is putting the spotlight on a controversial issue: the growing use of antidepressants during pregnancy. …Yet a rising chorus of researchers is questioning Motherisk’s stance on SSRI use in pregnancy. One … [Read More...]

In a 16×9 investigation Sean O’Shea reveals what drug companies knew about the effectiveness and side effects of antidepressants and how the drugs got onto pharmacy shelves despite some glaring flaws. Dr. David Healy is one of the experts interviewed. … [Read More...]

Dr. David Healy, controversial British psychiatrist and founder of RxISK.org, has recently come out with a statistic that states “some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant … [Read More...]

Prozac is 25 years old. It has been taken by over 40 million people around the world and made billions of dollars for Eli Lilly, the company that created it. But does it work? And what effect has the promise … [Read More...]

Society conducting ‘vast social experiment’ without knowing its end NEW YORK – If lawmakers and authorities are truly concerned about stopping gun violence in schools, they need to take a close look at the prescription of psychotropic drugs for children … [Read More...]

Canadians are willfully blind to the lethal risks of prescription drugs, which kill people “every day” through side effects, even at proper doses, according to a Conservative MP. “All drugs are poisons,” Terence Young told a packed audience this week … [Read More...]

Dr Healy is the guest of Deanna Spingola on Republic Broadcasting Network to talk about problems with prescription drug safety and about his new site, RxISK.org.  Includes phone in questions to Dr. Healy. Click here to listen.  

Andy Oudman (1290 AM CJBK, London ON) interviews Dr. David Healy, author of “Pharmageddon,” about an extremely important upcoming panel discussion regarding the risks associated with medications to be held on January 15 in Toronto at the Art Gallery of … [Read More...]

Expert: Psychiatric drugs likely cause of Lanza’s extreme violence NEW YORK – From the moment news emerged Friday that a young man had carried out a horrific massacre of elementary-school children, politicians from local city halls to the White House … [Read More...]

Medicine In The Thrall Of The Culture Of Drugs Donald W. Light reviews Pharmageddon “Medicine as we know it is at death’s door,” David Healy writes part way through Pharmageddon. It is a central theme running through the book by … [Read More...]

How the Pharmaceutical Industry Profits from False Claims, and a Brand New Online Tool that Can Help You Get Better Health Care

Time to Abandon Evidence Based Medicine? David Healy’s lecture captured on YouTube A talk by Prof David Healy from the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University. The talk was presented at the Cardiff University School of … [Read More...]

Psychiatrist Contends the Field Is ‘Committing Professional Suicide’ British psychiatrist and Big Pharma gadfly David Healy is so controversial amongst his colleagues that some have tried to have his medical license revoked — but there he was on Thursday, speaking … [Read More...]

BOOKS: Pharmageddon. By David Healy: “…In this very important book, Pharmageddon, you will read that the influence of the industry has now become more subtle, more insidious and much more worrying. Only last week two eminent French specialists concluded that … [Read More...]

Pharmageddon Review: “My favorite thing Healy touches on is how we can’t have a top down solution. It won’t work. What we need is a bottom up approach. And it’s happening, The infrastructure is being built. Projects like C3N, PatientsLikeMe, … [Read More...]

Pharmageddon: An Interview with David Healy In the past half-century, as the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals promised remedies, the treatment of ailments and illness may have supplanted a humanistic perspective of health. In his book, “Pharmageddon,” Professor of psychiatry David … [Read More...]

Drug Trials and Data-Based Medicine: An Interview with David Healy How can patients get better, more-reliable data about Rx drugs?

Has the Drug Industry’s Grip On Health Care Become a Pharmageddon? A Conversation with David Healy, MD, author of the new book Pharmageddon. See the full story here: OpEdNews.com: Has the Drug Industry’s Grip On Health Care Become a Pharmageddon?

7 June 2012 Literary Review Bitter Pills to Swallow Review of Pharmageddon by James Le Fanu 2 June 2012 StarTribune The consumer advocate (med tech not included) David Healy, the author of a powerful new critique of the health care … [Read More...]