7/7/2000 – FDA Boosts PMS Insanity
Sarafem, what a nice sounding name for such a deadly drug. How many patients will know that they are really getting Prozac with a different name? Why is a name change necessary? If it said Prozac on...
View Article7/24/2000 – Prozac [Sarafem] and PMS – What’s in a name?
Once again we thank Vera Hassner Sharav, President, CIRCARE: Citizens for Responsible Care & Research, a Human Rights organization, for passing on this interesting commentary on Prozac’s name being...
View Article12/29/2000 – Sarafem Nation – Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual W
A visibly irritated woman yanks on a supermarket shopping cart that's stuck in its stack while a soothing female voice-over recites a litany of PMS symptoms. She asks, "Think it's PMS? Think again. . ....
View Article2/24/2001 – Wall Street Journal Questions PMDD & Sarafem (Prozac)
IS SEVERE PMS, or premenstrual syndrome, a mental illness? Some pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists are treating it as one. In new television ads, drug maker Eli Lilly is promoting the drug...
View Article3/13/2001 – March Edition of drugawareness.org now online.
A new public health survey reveals that nearly half of the people being treated with antidepressants experience side effects and 55% of those patients stop taking their medication, rather than talk to...
View Article4/07/2001 – Insight Mag – Misleading Medicine
Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company that makes Sarafem, has been marketing the new treatment with such gusto that there are jokes about the company exhibiting...
View ArticleBrittany Murphy Cause of Death? Serotonin Syndrome?
Simon Monjack, left, husband of deceased actress Brittany Murphy and Murphy's mother Sharon pose with a portrait of the actress in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Monjack said the portrait by...
View ArticleSARAFEM (PROZAC) & ROBITUSSIN: Brittany Murphy Dies Suddenly: CA
"Let's set the record straight once and for all -- Brittany was not taking any medication for her mood, for anorexia," Murphy's husband Simon Monjack said. "It's utterly ridiculous that these rumors...
View ArticleANTIDEPRESSANTS ARE FAR FROM ALONE IN DANGERS! & BEWARE OF DRUG ADVERTIZING!
Why would Pfizer spend $100 million on two-minute TV ads that use a minute of that time admitting that their drug Chantix can cause "changes in behavior, hostility, agitation, depressed mood," "weird,...
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