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The Pharmaceutical Industry

I hope they hammer these people. This crap has to stop.

Lilly Sold Drug for Dementia Knowing It Didn’t Help, Files Show

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June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Eli Lilly & Co. urged doctors to prescribe Zyprexa for elderly patients with dementia, an unapproved use for the antipsychotic, even though the drugmaker had evidence the medicine didn’t work for such patients, according to unsealed internal company documents.

In 1999, four years after Lilly sent study results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showing Zyprexa didn’t alleviate dementia symptoms in older patients, it began marketing the drug to those very people, according to documents unsealed in insurer suits against the company for overpayment.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aTLcF3zT1Pdo

Was that when Bush was on the board of directors at Lilly?

(where's that shit stirring smiley?)

hmm - not sure of the validity of this glatt, but ...

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 573303)

Was that when Bush was on the board of directors at Lilly?

(where's that shit stirring smiley?)

Was he really? According the article it all started in 1998. So I don't know.

Bush I was on the board of directors in the 70s, and Bush II appointed the CEO who ran the company during this time period to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Oh crud, I was hoping there were some decongestants in this thread.

Well at least those old people weren't using untested home remedies. God knows those don't work.

very good Clod, very good.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 573347)

Well at least those old people weren't using untested home remedies. God knows those don't work.

Indeed. (non-blog-link)

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The lone exception [in herbal remedies]: ginger capsules may help chemotherapy nausea.

As for therapies, acupuncture has been shown to help certain conditions, and yoga, massage, meditation and other relaxation methods may relieve symptoms like pain, anxiety and fatigue.

Yep. Looks like a small percentage of the remedies actually work. Just like pharmaceuticals. I applaud the government for bothering to check.

Wait, I'm confused...the title says "NONE OF THESE REMEDIES WORK" but the article says that some of them do.

Which do I believe? The title can't be wrong, can it?

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In 1999, four years after Lilly sent study results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showing Zyprexa didn’t alleviate dementia symptoms in older patients, it began marketing the drug to those very people

The slackers didn't even bother to fabricate their research results? They've got a lot to learn from Merck and Pfizer...

The thing about Lily is when they first invented their new wonder pill Zyprexa they wanted to get it out there and into the consumer as quickly as possible.
The use of this drug spread like Aspirin and the doctors were getting free samples and all the pens, notepads and clocks they could eat.
For a person with insurance the prescription was mere pennies (o.k. a couple bucks) but the actual cost of a month's worth of this garbage was well over a hundred dollars. See where this is going?
Later studies found that this pill was causing diabetes because of all the sugar cravings and sudden weight gain, and a severe dependency on the drug, even if you didn't really need it.
By that I mean, if you told a doctor in 99' that you were depressed, they'd prescribe this crap. Yes, I've seen it happen. It's disgusting.
So years pass for these patients taking this pill, they don't feel better (in fact they don't "feel" anything at all) and they want to be relieved of Zyprexa's monster grip.
Nope, you have to be weened off of it slowly or it can cause panic attacks, heart problems, mania, you know, like heroin addiction.
If you ask my opinion it should either be pulled or doctors should use a little more discretion with who they're prescribing this shit to.
That's my 2 cents.

The Emperor's New Drugs.

"Yes there is a placebo effect, but is there a powerful antidepressant drug effect?"

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The authors expected a substantial placebo effect, but were surprised by the small medication effect that they found. It is suggested that their analysis of FDA data is likely to prove controversial, and although the difference in response between antidepressant medication and inert placebo was statistically significant, in clinical terms it was very small, leading Kirsch et al to ask whether these medications are "the emperor's new drugs."

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 573386)

Yep. Looks like a small percentage of the remedies actually work. Just like pharmaceuticals. I applaud the government for bothering to check.

And now that they've checked, what will happen to the "alternative medicines" that failed the test? I'm guessing that ginger for chemo is not a significant percentage of their business.

When Lily advertises a drug for something that studies have found it has no effect on, it is a scandal, and rightly so. It should be an even bigger scandal for the "alternative medicine" industry, for whom that is the business model. Lily could have put Zyprexa in the herbal remedy aisle with a few testimonials and they wouldn't have needed to do any testing in the first place.