The FDA is now requiring a suicide warning on SSRIs - Prozac etc. Garnet
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:05, Marshall Dudley wrote: > I spent some time on the FDA site, but could not find it. It is probably in > some of > their docuements that would require a trip to the Washington Library to find. > In > the interview I saw, they were covering a drug that had a bad side effect > that was > not listed in the PDR. I think it was suicide and prozac, but I am not sure > now, it > was over a year ago. Anyway, the show determined that the reason that it was > not > shown was that the placebo has the same side effect, so statistically the > difference > between the drug and the placebo was insignificant. But the real shocker > that they > uncovered was that the advertising for the drug on the side effects > referenced a > SUGAR PILL instead of saying placebo. The FDA representative was asked about > this > false statement in the drug's advertising and their response was basically > that > since many people do not know what a placebo is, the drug companies are > allowed to > say "sugar pill" instead of placebo when they run ads! > > This information on that show was posted to this list the day after the news > item > ran. I will see if I can find the original posting. > > Marshall -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
