"Peter Parry" <peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:20:12 +0100, "JOHN" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
http://psychrights.org/Articles/DHealy2007PediatricBipolarDisorderJRS419.pdfPediatric
>> bipolar disorder: An object of study in the creation of an illness,
>> by David Healy and Joanna Le Noury,
>
> From that paper "In the past 10 years D. Healy has had consultancies
> with, been a principal investigator or clinical trialist for, been a
> chairman or speaker at international symposia for or been in receipt
> of sup****t to attend meetings from Astra-Zeneca, Boots/Knoll
> Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Lorex-Synthelabo, Lundbeck,
> Organon, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Pierre-Fabre, Pfizer, Rhone-Poulenc
> Rorer, Roche, Sanofi, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay. In the past two
> years, he has had lecture fees and sup****t to attend meetings from
> Astra-Zeneca and Lundbeck.
>
> How do you normally describe people with such credentials?
>
>
He's an expert on anti-depressant drugs such as Prozac and the center
offered him a prestigious job. But then suddenly it changed its mind. The
decision the critics say was influenced by the center's relation****p with
powerful drug companies. Darrow MacIntyre has this feature do***entary.
DAVID HEALY: Let's say in the case of Prozac that it causes the problem,
it
will cause people to commit suicide at a rate of one in 1,000 people who
actually go on the drug. To most people here a figure like that, that
sounds
like a fairly low figure. It sounds like a reasonable trade-off almost.
But
if 50 million people go on the drug, then that becomes 50,000 suicides
which
is maybe higher than there has been, but it becomes an awfully big figure.
It's what the FDA call the public health multiplier which is a small
hazard
distributed among millions of people becomes a big problem.
http://psychrights.org/Research/Legal/SStefanPsychMedstortlitigationFactSheet.htm
Dr. Healy's credentials were impeccable, and therefore he was permitted to
testify. ...
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