Dear Doctor, Cipro, Avelox and Levaquin Can Make Your Tendons Snap Off Doug Bremner August 4, 2016 Uncategorized That's a translation into person speak from a letter I got today from Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals that started out with "Dear Healthcare Professional" and went on to their new "black box warning" for...
Don’t Count on the Government to Save You From Dangerous Drugs Doug Bremner August 2, 2016 Pharmaceutical Industry A report by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) outside advisory panel released last Friday stated that the FDA is putting American lives at risk. Not only has there been a shrinking of the budget...
Time to Die! (Oops! I Mean Time to Quit!) Doug Bremner August 2, 2016 Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology I was sitting in my car dealership today waiting to get service on my car and working on my laptop while the television was droning on in front of me. I mean this is one of the rare times when I watch TV...
News You Won’t Find in the NY Times Doug Bremner July 31, 2016 Accutane, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Posts in English, Psychology, Suicide Here's a forgotten chapter from pharmaceutical history. The acne drug, Accutane (isotretinoin), manufactured by Roche Pharmaceuticals, in addition to being associated with (as I wrote in prior posts) suicide,...
Can You Please Put Some Sugar on This Crap? Doug Bremner July 30, 2016 Accutane, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology I was reading the NY Times this weekend when I saw a story about a celebrity dermatologist who had a SWAT team descend on her office and arrest her for illegal use of narcotics (Percocet). Seems she had...
I’m Still Not Getting Flu Shots Doug Bremner July 28, 2016 Vaccines Oops! I forgot, my employer, Emory University, actually requires me to get a flu shot. So I guess that's not really true. In 2008 I was asked to give a talk at Emory Hospital on "Why I'm Not Getting a Flu...
Podcast: Controversies Over Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome Doug Bremner July 27, 2016 Uncategorized ...
Accutane Made Me Do It Doug Bremner July 27, 2016 Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry 1 Comment I was interviewed this morning by WLS-TV in Chicago about the case of a man who admitted to killing his dermatologist, claiming that the acne medication Accutane made him do it. I referred to our...
If They Don’t Kill Us They Will Drive Us Crazy Doug Bremner July 25, 2016 Antidepressants, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology 1 Comment Merck joins the rosters of pharmaceutical companies like Hoffmann La Roche that make drugs that, if they don't kill you, at least will drive you crazy. Roche has specialized for years in making drugs with...
Psychiatric Side Effects of Levaquin Doug Bremner July 4, 2016 Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry Fluoroquinolones, including Levaquin, Ciprofloxacin, and Avelox, are a class of antibiotics used to treat a range of infections. These drugs have a range of unfortunate possible side effects, including the...