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....
View ArticleDancing 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...
View ArticleDance 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...
View ArticleShadow 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...
View ArticleDance 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleProzac 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...
View ArticlePrescription-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...
View ArticleThe 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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