Depression

I have been tapped once again as an expert in the ongoing saga of Accutane and psychiatric side effects, this case involving a 15-year-old boy who committed homicide in Colorado after he became psychotic while...

Most mental health clients have a history of significant psychological past from their childhood or adult lives. Clients can be given a tool set and a road map for their recovery from psychological trauma that...

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...

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...

Rather than admit that one of their silver bullets, Accutane (isotretinoin), which was a "goose laying the golden egg" for F. Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals (and their various "Roche" associates world-wide)...

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...

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,...

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 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...

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...