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Dance to the Music of Time: how clinical trials help pharma invent data

This is the second post in a 6-part what was the  BarMittzva Romba series, now a dance series. Every product is built from a raw material. The raw material puts constraints on a product developer....

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Dancing in the Dark: how patents make drugs the perfect objects of desire

This is the third of six posts in what was the BarMittzva Romba series, now a dance series. A further step taken in 1962 made it possible to shape the raw material from clinical trials into the perfect...

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies: how prescription only keeps doctors’ healthy...

This is the fourth in the Dance series that tackles the crisis in healthcare. In 1962, politicians attempting to put things right in the pharmaceutical sector accidentally created the perfect raw...

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Shadow Dance: is alcohol safer and more effective than SSRIs?

This is the fifth in the Dance series tackling the crisis in healthcare We have dug a deep hole. The regulatory hoops through which a company has to jump are now so minimal that it would be easy for us...

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Dance with Python: healthcare in peril

This is the last in what was once the BarMittzva Romba series aimed at Bar(ack) & Mitt.  These have now been renamed as a series of Dances – Dancing as fast as we can, Dance to the Music of  Time,...

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The boy with the ponytail who played with fire

He is 6’4” at least – 192 cm. He has blonde hair tied back in a ponytail. When he first suggested making a program about SSRIs I was not very helpful – very little of the media coverage by 60 Minutes...

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The boy with the ponytail who kicked the hornets’ nest

In The boy with the ponytail who played with fire, we saw Jan Akerblom struggle up the side of a mountain in his attempt to drop the Ring of Power into Mount Doom. Where others, especially doctors, are...

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Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-fifth Anniversary

One Prescription for Every Man, Woman and Child Prozac was approved in 1987 in the US, and launched in early 1988, followed by a clutch of other SSRIs. Twenty-five years later, we now have one...

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Prescription-only Homicide and Violence

These are the speaking notes for two talks given in Chicago on Monday February 18th and Tuesday February 19th. The S2, S3 in the text refers to slides which are available on the RxISK.org site Video...

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The Devil’s Disclaimer

Editorial Note: The marketing of pharmaceuticals avails of something given to no other area of marketing – the product is made available on prescription-only.  In this post Johanna Ryan, from RxISK’s...

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