“A legal loophole is counteracting Canada's ban on direct-to-consumer drug advertising and has exposed Canadians to more than $90 million worth of ads, including those for drugs with life-threatening risks, according to a study by UBC researchers.”

March 27/09 — Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers

March 27/09 — Prescription sales rise by $1.2-billion, even as generics gain popularity

March 18/09 — A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar

March 6/09 — Important Ruling - Patients in the US who have been harmed by drugs can continue to sue for damages!

February 6/09 — Metabolic monitoring in patients prescribed antipsychotics abysmal

January 29/09 — Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter's Killer—the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies (book review)

January 23/09 — Eli Lilly to pay largest settlement in history over Zyprexa marketing tactics

January 4/09 — Alzheimer's drugs nearly double death risk in elderly: study

January 4/09 — Bitter Pill: A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.”

November 27/08 — Proceedings from “Adverse Reactions to Drugs: What is Our Responsibility?” by Sara Bostock (PDF— 32KB)

November 19/08 — Use of antipsychotics in children is criticized

November 18/08 — One-third of Asthma Cases not Asthma: study

November 17/08 — The epidemic of overmedication

November 17/08 — Prescription drugs kill 300 percent more Americans than illegal drugs

November 15/08 — Big Bucks, Big Pharma: marketing disease and pushing drugs (YouTube video)

November 15/08 — Drugged-out seniors a prescription for disaster

October 3/08 — CanWest Global’s campaign to allow dangerous prescription drug advertising (YouTube video)

October 3/08 — Top psychiatrist failed to report drug income

September 26/08 — Antidepressants may harm male fertility

September 26/08 — B.C. Health minister won’t prevent gifts going to doctors

September 21/08 — Secondary effects of antipsychotics: women at greater risk than men

September 18/08 — Behind the scenes of drug marketing: The ‘Wonder Drug’ episode on “The Hollowmen,” an Australian TV show

September 16/08 — Nanaimo: prescription drug abuse grows

September 11/08 — Drugs and the elderly in Canadian nursing homes

September 11/08 — 2004 report states 5/6 elderly taking prescription drugs in the US

August 28/08 — Drug safety warnings ineffective in decreasing antipsychotic prescriptions for the elderly in Canada

August 26/08 — Stanford to limit drug maker financing

August 26/08 — Drug Companies and Schizophrenia: unbridled capitalism meets madness (PDF— 324KB)

August 22/08 — Don’t become a victim of medical marketing

August 15/08 — Ending the Love affair between big pharma and the medical profession

August 1/08 — Pill Pushers: pharmaceutical marketing in an overmedicated nation

July 31/08 — Trucker's Death uncovers drug in herbal remedy

July 12/08 — American Psychiatric Association Faces scrutiny for drug company ties

June 23/08 — The accuracy of psychiatric medication advertisements in medical journals

June 23/08 — Grassley probes Paxil suicide risk

June 21/08 — Britain’s Child victims of the chemical Cosh

June 18/08 — Non drug treatments for attention deficit disorder gaining credibility

June 18/08 — Drug Companies hide information on serious risks of antidepressants (video)

June 17/08 — Paxil suicide data should be investigated, Grassley says

June 16/08 — Legal Drugs kill far more than illegal, Florida says

June 10/08 — Researchers fail to reveal full drug pay

June 5/08 — Persistent sexual dysfunction after discontinuation of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

May 29/08 — Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group Condemns government recommendation to scrap drug safety watchdog (PDF— 15KB)

May 29/08 — Highly-lauded drug assessment program under attack; (PDF)

May 29/08 — Current prescriptions of psychotropic drugs are irrational for the patients but very rational for the big pharma

May 29/08 — Life saving drug watchdog may be scrapped

Mar. 13/08 — Uncomfortably Numb (Excerpted from A Brief History of Anxiety)

Mar. 9/08 — Marketing Overdose is a short video series about how drug companies unethically promote drugs to the public, doctors and via patient groups.

Mar. 4/08 — Drug Firms pressed on secret pill data

Feb. 27/08 — Drug Giants warned: tell the truth on medicines

Feb. 26/08 — Anti-depressants’ ‘little effect’

Jan. 31/08 — A Pill for every ill — or an ill for every pill?

Jan. 17/08 — Researchers find a bias toward upbeat findings on antidepressants

Jan. 15/08 — The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An epidemic in 26 letters (new book)

Jan. 8/08 — The Medicated Child: PBS takes on pharma
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Jan. 3/08 — Warning: drug ads can make you sick

Dec. 19/07 — SSRI antidepressants linked to most school shootings

Dec. 18/07 — Dangerous drugs continue to be prescribed to seniors: CBC report

Dec. 7/07 — Reported suicides—more than 80 percent got psychiatric drugs; well over 50 percent got antidepressants

Dec. 7/07 — Prescription abuse seen in U.S. nursing homes