Author to speak about the background of Paxil

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Keith E. Jacobson
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Newton author Alison Bass will speak about her recently published book “Side Effects,” the true story of a groundbreaking court case and the personal drama that surrounded the making and unmasking of the best selling drug Paxil. Ms. Bass will give an author talk at the Newton Free Library on Thursday, September 25 at 7:30 pm.

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My day is complete :-)

This one is for Jezza. Thanks for directing traffic to Seroxat Sufferers. You da man.

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The Great Escape... Starring GlaxoSmithKline

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Mindy Merck & Gail Glaxo Dilemma

What a dilemma!

Jane Doe has narrowed down her search for a babysitter to just two applicants, Mindy Merck and Gail Glaxo. Which one should she choose to look after her 3 small children while she goes to work full-time?

She has just recieved both of their CV's through the post. Seroxat Sufferers was their when she opened them.

First Mindy Merck:

HISTORY

Known to have caused an estimated 125,000 heart attacks. In the first of many trials, the jury found Merck guilty of knowingly causing harm to patients by selling Vioxx.

Merck has friends in high places, most notably, Republican Gov. Rick Perry, Governor of Texas.

Merck is quite rich and has recently secured a deal with the FDA to vaccinate children with a drug called Gardasil. There is controvosy over Gardasil, in fact Dr. Diane M. Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the humanpapilloma virus vaccine says giving the drug to 11-year-old girls "is a great big public health experiment."

I think Jane Doe can cross her off the list. Okay, next we have Gail Glaxo, let's see how her CV reads:

HISTORY

Glaxo - Paxil Study 329 plus other crimes against children. Strangely, Glaxo is also vaccinating children in the UK with a drug called Cervarix!

Enough said!


Looks like Jane Doe will have to look elsewhere for a babysitter!

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GlaxoSmithKline, David Healy & Shelley Jofre

The following is a repost that deserves to be shown again.

The link to the interview is a must listen for all Seroxat sufferers.

On the 1st November 2007 Panorama reporter Shelley Jofre discussed her investigations into the effects of psychiatric drugs and questioned how much faith we should put in the medicines we take. This took place at Coventry University here in the UK and is available via a podcast.

Very interesting podcast it is too, where you will learn much about what Shelley Jofre and David Healy have saw with their own eyes but for legal reasons are not allowed to disclose. Who told them not to? GlaxoSmithKline did!

Shelley became intrigued with Seroxat when she read a small piece in a newspaper in the year 2000, the article was about patients complaints with Seroxat - almost 8 years ago people! Even back then people were complaining that it was difficult to withdraw from and were suggesting that it was addictive.

She goes on to tell the audience that the filming of the first Panorama Seroxat 'Special' Secrets of Seroxat took 8 months to finish. She states that the first programme pretty much relied on the testimony of one man who was Dr David Healy and what was unique about his position was tha he, through a series of legal actions in the United States, had actually been given access to GlaxoSmithKlines 'secret archives', a wealth of confidential material.

All the results of trials they had run before Seroxat had been licensed were in huge vaults and Healy, through American litigation, was granted 3 days to look through the records.

The rest, as you all know is history. Healy's evidence at the Tobin v. GlaxoSmithKline trial , No. 00-CV-0025 (D. Wyo. June 6, 2001) was pretty damning for Glaxo. It resulted in GlaxoSmithKline being found 80% guilty of causing the deaths of Donald Schell's wife, daughter and granddaughter.

David Healy could only relay to Shelley Jofre what he had relayed in the United States courtroom. What he spoke about in court opened Shelley's eyes. Glaxo were of course in a position to argue that it was the illness that had caused Schell to murder his wife, daughter and granddaughter but Healy had found that that Glaxo had done tests on normal, healthy people, even their own employees. These tests seperate out the effects of the illness from the effects of the drug, ie; if you're not depressed why would you then become suicidal or have homicidal thoughts if given a course of Seroxat?

What Healy had found in the healthy volunteer studies was that it was making some people have suicidal thoughts and become aggressive and also the some of the healthy volunteers were having trouble when withdrawing from Seroxat. Compelling evidence I'm sure you'll agree.

Shelley also mentions her 3 interviews with Glaxo mouthpiece, Alistair Benbow. One thing I never spotted before, and kudos to Shelley's observation skills here, was the second programme where Benbow (obviously briefed by Glaxo's lawyers and PR Team) was seen to have a more laid back approach. Head tilted to one side, his collar open, speaking in a sympathetic voice. Watching the video again I can see exactly what she means.

Shelley also speaks of the MHRA - It's a fascinating interview and one that no doubt I will play over and over. The woman deserves honours of the highest order for cracking open GSK... as does David Healy

The podcast can be downloaded here [Right-Click and 'Save As']

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Prescribing Advice for GPs

Glad to see word is getting out.

MHRA publish SSRI meeting minutes

September 16, 2008 on 1:43 pm

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have published the minutes of a meeting held with Bob Fiddaman, campaigner and author of the Seroxat Sufferers blog, to discuss withdrawal issues.

The meeting discussed the current warnings in the patient information leaflet and the problems encountered when ending treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), but especially paroxetine (Seroxat®). Attention was also drawn to low levels of awareness of withdrawal as a problem and due to this a lack of expertise and support when patients do encounter withdrawal symptoms, for example by using liquid formulations.

Action: Clinicians should be well aware of the potential for withdrawal symptoms associated with SSRIs, especially paroxetine. Using liquid formulations or changing to longer acting treatments (fluoxetine) towards the end of therapy may make treatment withdrawal easier.


Penny seems to be dropping

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New Blog - HPV Vaccine Myth

http://hpvmyth.blogspot.com/

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LOLA'S LAND PROMOTING HPV VACCINE

Lola's Land is a fun, interactive site that will advise, inform, entertain and inspire girls aged 9 to 13.

Lolasland.com is fresh, inspirational, positive and content rich. It's a land that girls will love and parents will happily embrace.

On their 'Love Yourself' page, 9 to 13 year old girls and their parents can learn about HPV (Human papillomavirus)



They are told that HPV is a very common sexually transmitted infection and is the main cause of cervical cancer.


What they are NOT told is:

• The FDA has, for four years, known that HPV was not the cause of cervical cancer.


• Why HPV infections are self-limiting and pose no real danger in healthy women.

Here is the FDA document [PDF]

Who are behind this promotion on Lola's Land?

Well according to this article, it's GlaxoSmithKline and the British Government.

Nothing like using children for promotion of a product.

I hope the MHRA read the raw data on this one because if they didn't and kids start dropping down dead or developing cancerous lesions later in life then someone will have to be held accountable!

If Cervarix does not actually prevent cervical cancer then why is it being marketed [advertised] as a long-lasting cancer prevention?

Can GlaxoSmithKline's HPV vaccine, Cervarix, increase the risk of precancerous lesions? If yes, then why are patients or the parents of patients not told this?

Is this Cervarix promotion underhand? Is it legal?

It would be awful in ten or twenty years time to learn that the public had been duped again. It's a very tough decision for any parent to make but they must be given the facts. If Glaxo or Merck are once again hiding data or manipulating numbers then they do so at the expense of our children.

All I am saying is do your research before you consent to your daughter having this vaccine. Don't believe that GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are in this to save children, young women. Ask yourself are GSK and Merck purely in this for the money, their history of paying out claimants in the courts for defective drugs they have manufactured may suggest that making money is their only incentive. [Merck & Vioxx] - [GSK & Paxil]

Here's a good place to start your research regarding Gardasil and HPV

HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed: FDA Documents Reveal HPV "Not Associated with Cervical Cancer"

I'm glad I have no daughters... I'm glad I no longer put my trust in GlaxoSmithKline. Once bitten you see.

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GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix. Is Your Daughter Safe?

Is this advert misleading?

**Ad now mysteriously removed?

Hmmm

GlaxoSmithKline's HPV Vaccine, Cervarix.

A routine immunisation programme for human papillomavirus (HPV) started across the UK on 1 September 2008 for 12–13-year-old girls (school year 8). The vaccine given is called Cervarix, which protects against infection with HPV types 16 and 18.

Here is my following email to the MHRA.

----- Original Message -----
From: fiddaman
To: MHRA Information Centre
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: FOI - Cervarix, (HPV) vaccine

Dear Sir, Madam,

I wish to learn more of GlaxoSmithKline's HPV Vaccine, Cervarix and the MHRA's stance on it.

Could you confirm the following in writing to me please?


1. Is GlaxoSmithKline's, Cervarix, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer?

2. Can the Human Papilloma Virus [HPV] cause cervical cancer?

3. Can GlaxoSmithKline's HPV vaccine, Cervarix, increase the risk of precancerous lesions?

4. Is GlaxoSmithKline's HPV vaccine, Cervarix, effective amongst women and girls under the age of sexual consent whom have had prior exposure to HPV?

5. Is GlaxoSmithKline's HPV vaccine, Cervarix, only effective in virgins?

6. As I am aware via the MHRA website [HERE] a routine immunisation programme for human papillomavirus (HPV) started across the UK on 1 September 2008. With this in mind, has any criteria been set-up to ask patients [before administering the vaccine] whether or not they have had sexual intercourse?

I ask all of the above under the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely,

Bob Fiddaman

---

Seroxat Sufferers

http://fiddaman.blogspot.com

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Your Daughter... Merck's Lab Rat

In the main I try to stay focused on GlaxoSmithKline and Seroxat on this blog after all I blame Seroxat and its manufacturers for the countless human suffering they have caused.

I'd like to switch my attention to Merck, another pharmaceutical company who, it seems, like to earn billions of dollars/pounds at the expense of children.

Like Glaxo, Merck have been given the contract to vaccinate girls in the US and Canada with Gardasil, Glaxo have 'won' that contract here in the UK to treat girls with Cervarix. I'll be writing about Cervarix in another post.

Okay, it's a given that we all have a choice to decide what drugs our children should and should not be given but with millions of dollars/pounds ploughed into advertisements to persuade us all that these drugs are safe, what chance do we have as parents?

Advocates know slightly better than to take the word of Pharma but the masses don't. It's left to bloggers, freelance journo's et al to raise awareness... yet gain!

Once again, it seems, famous faces have been touting Merck's Gardasil on US TV shows. One such person is Dr. Lisa Masterson, a kind of Hollywood doc who appears on US TV Shows. One recent show she appeared on was MyFox, I believe it's a sister channel of Fox 11 in America though I could be mistaken. Here she answered several questions about Gardasil.

Lisa Masterson: "We're talking about our kids, and that's packed with a lot of emotion and these reactions [Gardasil] go from nausea to paralysis. The thing is, we don't have a strict causal effect, we don't know if the vaccine has actually caused these problems, we have to feel for these people 'cos it's these people's children and you just never know and you go and you take your baby for a vaccine you are trying to do something good for your child also good for the community even on the news this morning we saw about the outbreak of measles, so you know that there is a benefit, this has the potential to cure cancer in women, cervical cancer..."

Wait a minute, Gardasil has the potential to cure cervical cancer? Is that what Merck say? If so, this vaccine could be the find of the century, no, the find of the last 1000 years! Is Dr. Lisa Masterson correct? Does the Gardasil vaccine actually have the potential to cure cervical cancer? Is there a difference in the words 'prevention' and 'cure'? Masterson seems to think so.

Cure - Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation

Prevention - The act of preventing or impeding.

The Food and Drug Administration [FDA] and the Centers for Disease Control [CDC] reviewed side effect reports, they found 94% of side effects reported after vaccination were not serious. There were also 20 deaths reported, the FDA combined with the CDC said, no common pattern that would suggest these were caused by the vaccine. (Source)

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, last year released FDA side effect reports showing an increase in adverse events attributed to Gardasil.

It's a tough one to call. Here we have a vaccine that is promoted alongside words no woman wants to hear 'Cervical' and 'Cancer'. Any parent would rejoice if they could prevent this happening to their daughters. In truth, it really is a difficult decision to make, as far as I am aware no long term study was ever carried out by Merck, pretty much the same as GlaxoSmithKline and Seroxat. One only has to look around and see how many people are still suffering at the hands of that particular 'cure'.

Merck pulled their arthritis painkiller, Vioxx, from the market in September 2004. They also agreed a $4.85 billion (£2.42 billion) settlement, one of the biggest in history, with US claimants who blamed the drug for heart attacks and other devastating side-effects.

Vioxx was withdrawn from the market in September 2004, after a study found it doubled the chances of a heart attack or stroke. It emerged that the company's scientists had been concerned for several years about the risks. Vioxx was popular in the US, where it was promoted by American Olympic gold medalists on behalf of the company.

Now, given the choice, would any parent wish to stand in a queue with their daughter and tell them that the vaccine they are about to be given was made by a company who had a known history of manufacturing 'deadly cures'?

You may believe in the hype that is promoted by Merck and the likes of Dr. Lisa Masterson but one fundamental question we as citizens must ask ourselves is 'Do we really trust Merck?'

The choice is yours.

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PAGE AFTER PAGE OF SEROXAT COMPLAINTS...

PAGE AFTER PAGE OF SEROXAT COMPLAINTS...

... and one cretinous prat requests the following! (see pic)

The 248 page document is a fascinating read. MP's, Ministers and patients all writing to the MHRA about Seroxat, GlaxoSmithKline's not so wonderful antidepressant.

Amongst the myriad of letters, emails, FOI requests was the one pictured above.

Some complete buffoon asking if the MHRA had taken appropriate steps to ensure that the Seroxat User Group and Online Seroxat Support Group were bona fide patient groups!

Not only that, this mindless moron was requesting copies of association (or other like meaning documents) for both the Seroxat User Group and the Online Seroxat Support Group!

I find it difficult to believe that in this day and age one person could be so wrapped up in trying to belittle patient support groups because his/her particular choice of drug has not had the publicity that Seroxat has had... and still continues to have. At least that's why I think this person with an obsession against Seroxat campaigners seeks to gain this information from the MHRA under the FOI.

In the main, the document clearly highlights the frustrations of patients wanting answers... so much so that a lot of them have lobbied their MP's to help them get answers.

Page after page of angry, frustrated patients wanting to know why they have struggled at the hands of GlaxoSmithKline's wonder drug, Seroxat. A drug highlighted four times on BBC TV's Panorama. A drug robustly defended by GlaxoSmithKline's Alistair Benbow and the MHRA's Chairman, Alasdair Breckenridge. A drug that STILL tops the list of adverse reactions for SSRi's despite the declining prescriptions written for patients here in the UK.

Seroxat has caused many hardships for families. Has caused patient suffering and families un-needed grief as they mourn the death of a loved one. It has been the subject that undoubtedly has kept the MHRA busy in paperwork and patient advocate meetings. It has taken the investigative skills of Shelly Jofre [BBC Panorama] and the professionalism of Charles Medawar and Dr. David Healy to speak out against Seroxat. It has taken patients wanting answers to the edge of insanity as they have sat back and watched GlaxoSmithKline continue to pimp the pill.

The 248 page document released by the MHRA speaks loud and clear and does nothing but tarnish the name of GlaxoSmithKline.

Personally, I beleive, the MHRA communications has improved somewhat since I first started writing this blog, in fact it was shortly after their 4 year investigation into GSK's paediatric trials that the MHRA sprung into action. Being shown up by an arse of a law and by GlaxoSmithKline, the MHRA sat with patients, myself included, and I believe for the first time they actually understood that this was a problem that was not going away. It's a problem that still exists but is gradually unfolding and putting to rest the embarrassment caused by not being able to prosecute GSK and having a Chairman publicly defend Seroxat.

I would like to thank the Communications Officer at the MHRA, John Watkins, for opening a door that for many years had been shut tight. The MHRA have an awful long way to go in putting right the wrongs. Seroxat is one of many drugs that has not been regulated properly. Blogs could, perversely, be the saving grace for the MHRA now that they are aware just how influential they can be in spreading the word about bad [defective] drugs. If drugs are to be regulated properly then the MHRA MUST demand ALL the data including the raw data. Maybe, that will be their next course of action?

I'll finish off this post by saying that there ARE patients addicted to Seroxat. It does not matter how one defines the word 'addicted'. I sincerely hope these patients can be helped.

Blogs are influential according the the MHRA report. Now the MHRA have to show their influence to the powers that be that can help these addicts successfully taper off this controversial antidepressant.

The ball has finally started rolling down the corridors of the MHRA building. I hope they keep the momentum going because if they don't there are many bloggers, investigative reporters and SSRi experts who will.

To the person requesting information under the FOI regarding the Seroxat User Group and the Online Seroxat Support Group, you should really be ashamed of yourself for allowing jealousy to stand in the way of logic.

As always, this post is open for your comments.

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The Influence of Bloggers

Are you watching Glaxo?

The MHRA started taking an interest in blogs fairly late last year. For several months they searched for blogs relating to MHRA and tried to make sense of what at first was a rather bewildering landscape. Early this year they sought some professional help in understanding the blogosphere. The MHRA commissioned a company to do some research, using tools not available to them. In the few months leading up to the commissioning it had become obvious that Seroxat was the issue that dominated the blogosphere in relation to MHRA. Therefore they decided to seek to understand a single dominant issue through the company’s mapping techniques rather than risk a more complex but less intelligible picture of all the blogs relating to MHRA.

This is the outcome of that report

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Fascinating read.

The origin of the original document comes bundled in a massive pdf document which can be downloaded on the MHRA website. That is also a fascinating read with many documents pertaining to Seroxat and GlaxoSmithKline.

Here

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By Bob Fiddaman

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