Rainy, Snowy Day Roundup
It’s raining like crazy in Seattle and I know it’s snowing like crazy on the East Coast. So bundle up and stay dry everyone and pour through this roundup of interesting items.
The FDA has failed to make publicly available, as required by law, the approval packages for at least nine of the 25 most popular drugs in this country. I had hoped this kind of thing would improve with Obama appointees running the FDA, but no.
AstraZeneca succeeds in getting two more Seroquel lawsuits tossed out of court. The company is eight for eight on that front now.
Talk about conflicts of interest: an MIT economist was under an almost $300,000 contract with HHS to evaluate health care reform proposals while publicly attacking critics of health care reform, but he never disclosed that conflict. Embarrassing at a minimum.
Veterinary Practice News identifies anti-depressants, benzos and ADHD drugs as among the top 10 classes of drugs causing pets seriously problems when they accidentally ingest them. “Pets, especially cats, seem to enjoy the taste of Effexor and often eat the entire pill,” notes the article. “One pill can cause serious poisoning.” Yikes.
News of an autism cluster in Silicon Valley.
A federal judge will now oversee monitoring of conditions and the treatment of patients at the psych unit of the notorious Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.
CL Psych has its usual irreverent take on this week’s JAMA study on anti-depressants.
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