Healthy Skepticism Updates
Update 2010-04-16
Updates return
This is the first Healthy Skepticism Update since September 2009. We apologise for the delay. We have been busy moving to our new website. Now that the move is almost complete we will be producing Updates about once a month.
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25 June 2010 - Prescription for Conflict: Should Industry Fund Continuing Medical Education?
A conference hosted by PharmedOut
Friday, June 25, 2010
Georgetown University Intercultural Center, Washington DC
New AdWatch issues
2010 April, USA: Wyeth’s Pristiq® (desvenlafaxine) for major depressive disorder
2009 October, USA: Amylin and Eli Lilly’s Byetta® (exenatide injection) for type 2 diabetes
Recent HS International News
March: Whose bread I eat, his song I sing
by Julian Burnside QC
Julian Burnside is a prominent Australian barrister. In 2009 he represented the lead plaintiff in a class action against Merck concerning the effects of Vioxx. This is an excerpted version of the keynote address he gave at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Congress in Adelaide on 28 May 2009.
February: Paxil Study 329: Paroxetine vs Imipramine vs Placebo in Adolescents
by Jon Jureidini
Jon has collected a set of internal pharmaceutical company documents about study 329 that at now in the public domain following litigation.
December: Internal company documents regarding 3 atypical antipsychotic drugs
by Peter Parry and Glen Spielmans
Peter and Glen have created a set of PowerPoint files of the so called “Zyprexa documents”. These are examples of internal pharmaceutical company (in this case Eli-Lilly) documents that have been subpoenaed to court cases.
November: Big Pharma Beaten
by Steindór J. Erlingsson
GSK in Iceland forced to withdraw a drug-promoting depression booklet
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