Making medicines safer for all of us
Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals.
It’s a reasonable bet they are an even greater cause of death in non-hospital settings where there is no one to monitor things going wrong and no one to intervene to save a life. In mental health, for instance, drug-induced problems are the leading cause of death — and these deaths happen in community rather than hospital settings.
There is also another drug crisis — we are failing to discover new drugs. [Read more…]
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Damnation or Salvation – High Stakes Court Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BKRRE1lhM Someone tuning into the closing arguments in the Clancy case without having seen anything that went before, especially if they came to it thinking trials should hinge on facts rather than waffle or emotions, would likely have been left figuring the prosecution has to win. They dealt in details. Details about her illness,…
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The Eclipse of Science and of Us
An alternate title for this post could have been something like A Medical Yankee in King Charles’ Court or King Donald’s Court – your choice of Kings. The recent Eclipse makes this title timely. An Eclipse also features in the original A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – a take-down of both superstition and…
Entranced, Spellbound, Mesmerized
Consent to Waltz, Capacity to Tango, Connect to.. using statin and antihypertensive examples shows how we on one side and our doctors on the other can get blindsided by treatment and end up incapacitated. These difficulties are magnified with psychotropic drugs, where the availability of a mental illness on which everything can be blamed…
Can Stealing be Regulated
This letter was email to Dr Dal Pan today July 29, 2026 – See Stolen Lives and Prescribed Harm Awareness Dr Gerald Dal Pan druginfo@fda.hhs.gov Dear Dr Dal Pan I listened with interest to your recent interview with Dr Celia Williams in a Q & A with FDA series, where you were asked which types…
Stolen Lives Goes Global
This post is written by Katinka Newman. It links to Prescribed Harm Awareness Day on RxISK. Three years ago, on 29 July, a small group of us gathered together in Hyde Park, London. It was something we set up through Antidepressant Risks, the not-for-profit I founded to improve informed consent around antidepressants and other psychiatric…