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• Mental Health Year in Review: 2009

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 570
  Another year is over, and so brings us to the close of another year of great stories, great friends, and great insights into the world of psychology — our annual Year in Review of Mental Health. Conflicts of Interest, Lawsuits and Transparency Perhaps 2009 will be noted as the year of reckoning for pharmaceutical ...
  3 days ago

• Feds Probe High Prescribing Docs In Florida

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 543
  The federal government has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs - such as antipsychotics - to Medicaid patients over 18 months, the Associated Press reports. And the case has prompted Chuck Grassley, the Republican Senator from Iowa, to call for a ...
  5 days ago

• How to lose weight when meds pack on weight

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 632
  I want to lose weight, but the drugs I take to manage my bipolar disease actually add weight. Do you have ideas on how I can lose weight? Details inside. I have been diagnosed with, Bipolar I, moderate to severe Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fibromyalgia, bursitis in both hips, and other lesser problems, and ...
  1 week ago

• A Nice Little Zyprexa Dismissal

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 586
  Right now, it looks like Lillys got the "big mo" in the Zyprexa litigation. Hard on the heals of Judge Weinsteins dismissal of the Mississippi AG action, Lilly chalked up another win yesterday in Philadelphia against a third party payor. Heres a copy, Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust v. Eli Lilly & Co. , ...
  1 week ago

• FDA May Strengthen Antipsychotic Labels For Kids

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 543
  An FDA official says the agency is considering strengthening the labels to warn about weight gain and diabetes amid concerns the impact could be stronger in children compared to adults, Dow Jones writes. Tom Laughren, who heads the FDA’s division of psychiatric products, says the agency asked drugmakers to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Antipsychotic drugs side effects on kids lead to calls for new FDA review

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  Filed under: Company News , Healthcare It was just at the end of October that the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study which found that children taking the latest generation of antipsychotic drugs gain significant amounts of weight -- as much as 18.7 pounds on average in just 11 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zypreza, Seroquel Side Effects in Children Need Further Review: FDA Staff

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 480
  According to documents released Friday, FDA staff members say that the agency needs to conduct more of an in-depth investigation into the metabolic side effects for children using Seroquel , Zyprexa and other newer atypical antipsychotics, which could lead to weight gain, diabetes and other serious health problems. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Missing Pieces – website

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 150
  Description: This is an unbranded Web site designed to help depression sufferers understand depression and take action. The includes simple, straight-to-the-point information. Upon arriving on the homepage, there’s a function to create adownloadable pdf about depression. All the information included in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Individual Proof Rule

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 482
  On December 1, 2009 Judge Weinstein issued a ruling granting partial summary judgment to the pharma company Eli Lilly in the lawsuit by the state of Mississippi concerning Zyprexia. The opinion can be found here. The folks over at Drug...
  2 weeks ago

• FDA Approves Zyprexa for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder in Teens

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 578
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handed Eli Lilly & Co. approval to market its best-selling medication Zyprexa to teens with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The FDA approved the drug for treatment of schizophrenia or manic/mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in adolescents aged 13-17 ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. FDA calls for review of antipsychotics re: weight gain in kids: as they approve Zyprexa, Seroquel for 10 year olds and up

  
  soulful sepulcher — Authority: 477
  Via Furious Seasons mental health news blog:Somehow, this just seems like an out of body experience writing about how the FDA approved the use of the antipsychotic Seroquel and Zyprexa for use in 10 year olds and teens, while calling for a review for metabolic issues possibly caused by those drugs.Ill just copy and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zyprexa Gets FDA Approval For Use In Adolescents

  
  soulful sepulcher — Authority: 477
  Via, Furious Seasons:Another approval today for a controversial antipsychotic, Zyprexa has made approval from the US FDA for use in teens.---I repeat, and again, I repeatZyprexa caused my daughter to gain 100lbs in less than one year at age 11, her eyes would have ocular crisis and often could not look down, therefore ...
  2 weeks ago

• Further Study Of Antipsychotic Effects On Kids: FDA

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 543
  In advance of a meeting of the agency’s pediatric advisory committee meeting next week, staffers from the FDA’s Office of Pharmacovigilance are recommending further study the effects of atypical antipsychotic medicines in children. They made their suggestion after reviewing a study of medical literature that found ...
  2 weeks ago

• This And That

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 586
  We tried to think of a great issue to explore today – and struck out. So instead we’ll discuss this and that – various things that we’re aware of, but that we haven’t gotten around to mentioning. Pigs Get Fat, Mississippi Got Slaughtered The top of the agenda, of course, is a review of Judge ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fat rights: My days as a person of size

  
  News UK — Authority: 134
  “Customer of size” is how the US domestic airline Southwest describe plus-size passengers who are too big to squeeze between normal armrests. If the customer can’t lower both armrests he or she has to pay for a second seat.I too was like that once – a person of size – and I felt wretched about [...]
  2 weeks ago

• US District Court Judge Jack Weinstein is a danger to society: Zyprexa lawsuit

  
  soulful sepulcher — Authority: 477
  From Pharmalot:"In a 117-page order, US District Court Judge Jack Weinstein maintained Zyprexa offered benefits despite the side effect allegations. “The state arguably saved large sums through use of Zyprexa by preventing users with serious mental problems from requiring hospitalization in state facilities, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lilly Wins Zyprexa Case Against Mississippi

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 543
  A federal judge dismissed most of the state’s lawsuit, calling Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s approach a “slash-and-burn style of litigation” that could bankrupt Lilly and pharma, in general. Hood (pictured at left) hoped to recover Medicaid payments made for Lilly’s Zyprexa antipsychotic, which was ...
  3 weeks ago

• the taloned grip

  
  soulful sepulcher — Authority: 477
  the taloned grip the psychiatric system has on my daughter is entrenched in and based upon a theory of helping people get well with mental illness, yet is based on medications only, in a system that holds few and far between actual facilities to carry forward that paradigm.this is what i am up against, on behalf of my ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mississippi State AG Zyprexa Action Decimated

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 586
  This just in - Eli Lilly has received summary judgment against the Mississippi Attorney Generals consumer fraud lawsuit in all respects - except one. The court left the states claim based on the difference between the price paid for Zyprexa and the value received by the State alive, but largely because that issue is ...
  3 weeks ago

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