Let Them Eat Ritalin Doug Bremner May 2, 2017 Mental Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychiatry 1 Comment It seems strange that the diagnosis of Attention Deficits Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) been increasing so dramatically over the past few years. Ten per cent of boys in America are prescribed some kind of...
Don’t Squeeze the Sharma Doug Bremner October 23, 2016 Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychiatry 1 Comment I recently became aware of a psychiatrist from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London named Tonmoy Sharma, MD, once a prominent academic psychiatrist in England with multiple papers and books...
‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’ Now on audiobook Doug Bremner September 18, 2016 Accutane, Depression, Film, Pharmaceutical Industry, Posts in English, Psychology, Suicide The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane, the truth that had to be told, the best-selling narrative nonfiction book by Doug Bremner MD that is soon to be made into a film, is now available on audiobook...
A Growing Market for Diabetes Doug Bremner August 15, 2016 Pharmaceutical Industry Diabetes is one of those conditions that must be treated for life, and requires lifestyle shifts and constant monitoring. Diabetics are in for the long haul, no matter which of the two major types of...
Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Doug Bremner August 11, 2016 Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry The fluoroquinolone antibiotics, which include drugs like Cipro, were first introduced in the 1980s. They inhibit DNA gyrase, an enzyme needed for bacterial DNA replication and therefore bacterial cell...
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...
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...