From Concerned, regarding this post:
EVERY study that is used to determine whether a drug gets FDA approval is a drug company funded study. Just because AZ funded the studies of Seroquel doesn’t mean the the data is biased, falsified, or misrepresented.
Check out Philip Dawdy’s post on this subject to see another point of view.
liz | 11:54 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Excelente blog, soy argentino que vive en la ciudad de Villa
Carlos Paz, provincia de Córdoba, Argentina. Mi hermana
Liliana falleció en el 2002, era bipolar crónica, un año antes de morir escribió 160 páginas de poemas dando testimonio literario de su problema. Le hice el siguiente blog donde puede consultarse su biografía y una antología de sus escritos:
http://liliananaus.blogspot.com
Agradeceré referencias en español para difundir su caso.
Actually, concerned, it’s the DEFINITION of biased. AZ has a vested interest in securing a “positive outcome” for these studies. They want to sell their product, just as any private institution does. Independent, objective research it is not.
HI liz,
Just wanted to thank you for keeping up your blog.
love hearing how you are doing…
How are you doing?
bizi
With the advent of managed medicine, cost-effective care, outcome based medicine and other euphemisms for bad medicine independent research has died a rapid death. Even in academic settings almost all research is drug company sponsored with a clear underlying bias to prove the efficacy of medications pending release or pending a new indication. Positive outcomes equals potential sales, equals money for the drug company, equals future study funding for the researcher.
Medicine has become largely consumer driven- witness the $$$$ being made by laser centers, plastic surgeons and erectile dysfunction cures.(Do you have any idea how hard it is to not joke after a sentence which contains the word
“erectile”?
I will be strong.)
The heck with my last comment.Very,very cool mentions in the NYT today!!! Congratulations. Who is the cute chick on the bed?
It’s great to find this blog.
Everyone,
What do you think I am BP 1 and have trouble sleeping at times my P-Doc keeps wanting me to use Seroquel. I have asked him about something with less side effects but he keeps pushing. I haven’t yet, any thouhgts
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