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Citizens Commission on Human Rights International- Drugmaker pays psychiatrist nearly $500,000 to promote antipsychotic drug Seroquel despite misgivings about his researchAstraZeneca paid Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein $490,000 over a decade to travel the nation promoting its best-selling antipsychotic drug, Seroquel. In return, Reinstein provided the company a vast customer base: thousands of residents in Chicago-area nursing homes.
- Children on antipsychotics 3 times more likely to develop diabetes (a known side effect of antipsychotics)Dr. Dina Panagiotopoulos, a pediatric endocrinologist at BC Children's who was the principal investigator in the study published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, said the increased rates of obesity mean youth face a higher risk of heart disease and cholesterol.
- Eli Lilly to pay $24 million in Utah Attorney General’s Zyprexa lawsuit/AG says “we want their bad conduct to stop”Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sued the company after a nearly four-year investigation revealed that Lilly concealed its knowledge of significant weight gain and obesity associated with the anti-psychotic medication Zyprexa. Investigators also showed that Lilly's sales representatives illegally promoted the drug for uses not approved by the U.S. F […]
- Drugmaker pays psychiatrist nearly $500,000 to promote antipsychotic drug Seroquel despite misgivings about his research
- Nurses for Human Rights
- Do Doctors Promote Mental Illness?Are you comfortable knowing that the medications your doctors prescribe for you may be influenced by what they hear at a lecture or seminar weekend from a pharmaceutical company paid speaker instead of your doctor’s own research and critical reading of the testing results of that drug? Well, apparently, that is what is happening in [...]
- Do Doctors Promote Mental Illness?
