http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress Depression, we will try to help you Understand it, Treat it & Beat it! Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This statement has been issued following the BBC Panorama programme, ‘Secrets of The Drugs Trials’ which was aired on Monday 29th January. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) provided a written response to the allegations made in the above programme. GSK strongly denies suggestions that it has acted in any way improperly and wishes ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/30/glaxosmithkline-statement-bbc-panorama-29-january-2007/ PAMELA BLAIN, et al. v. SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION d/b/a GLAXOSMITHKLINE CIVIL ACTION No. 06-1247 United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. January 25, 2007 MEMORANDUM OPINION Savage, J. In moving to certify this product liability action against the manufacturer of the antidepressant drug Paxil as a national class action, the plaintiffs seek to represent all persons whose children under age eighteen ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/29/pamela-blain-et-al-v-smithkline-beecham-corporation-dba-glaxosmithkline/ Secret emails reveal that the UK's biggest drug company distorted trial results of an anti-depressant, covering up a link with suicide in teenagers. Panorama reveals that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) attempted to show that Seroxat worked for depressed children despite failed clinical trials. And that GSK-employed ghostwriters influenced 'independent' academics. GSK ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/29/drug-company-hid-suicide-link/ "In developing Seroxat, GSK has always been strongly conscious of the duty it owes to the millions of patients who suffer from depression and refutes any allegation that it has failed in this duty. GSK utterly rejects any suggestion that it has improperly withheld drug trial information. Depression is a ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/29/seroxat-statement-from-glaxosmithkline/ Seroxat, the world's biggest-selling antidepressant, should be withdrawn while its safety is fully investigated, advises a coroner who recorded an open verdict on a man who killed himself within a fortnight of starting a course of the drug. The Brecon coroner, Geraint Williams, said he would be writing to the ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/11/coroner-calls-for-enquiry-into-seroxat-130303/ By Celia Hall, Medical Editor (Telegraph) A new caution over the anti-depressant, Seroxat, has been issued, advising doctors that it could increase the risk of abnormalities in babies if given to women in the first three months of pregnancy. In America the product leaflet has already been changed to give the new ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/11/baby-alert-over-seroxat/ New British research has found that users of GlaxoSmithKline's antidepressant drug Paxil were twice as likely to experience violent behavior compared to patients taking placebo. Researchers from Cardiff University in Britain and the Cochrane Centre examined data on Paxil -- or its generic form, paroxetine -- from GlaxoSmithKline, legal cases and ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/01/antidepressant-paxil-found-to-double-the-risk-of-violent-behavior/ In June 2001, a jury in Wyoming determined that the antidepressant drug Paxil caused a man to kill his wife, daughter and granddaughter before killing himself. The jury awarded the surviving family $8 million in damages, according to American Medical Publishing's Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives. In Portland, Ore., ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/01/experts-say-antidepressant-drugs-cause-suicides-instead-of-preventing-them/ Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Volume 110 Issue 6 Page 452 - December 2004 doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2004.00437.x Volume 110 Issue 6 Antidepressants and suicidal behaviour in unipolar depression B. I. Yerevanian1,2, R. J. Koek1,2, J. D. Feusner1,2, S. Hwang2,3, J. Mintz2,3 Yerevanian BI, Koek RJ, Feusner JD, Hwang S, Mintz J. Antidepressants and suicidal behaviour in unipolar depression. Acta Psychiatr Scand ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2007/01/01/antidepressants-and-suicidal-behaviour-in-unipolar-depression/ Why should John Hogan be charged with murder and attempted murder?, John was clearly on some sort of antidepressant, I know for a fact that this sort of drug can alter a persons state of mind, to such a degree that the individual no longer knows themselves, I think that ... http://whosdepressed.org/wordpress/2006/09/03/john-hogan/