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Deep Flaws in FDA Oversight of Medical Devices, and Patient Harm, Exposed in Lawsuits

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The pump, manufactured by device maker Medtronic, connected plastic tubing to an insulin reservoir, which Gautney set to release doses of the vital hormone over the course of the day. ‘There’s a big hole left where he was,’ said Gautney’s daughter, Carla Wiggins, who is suing the manufacturer.

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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We cited research based on the clinical study reports the manufactures had submitted to drug regulators to get their drugs approved for children and adolescents and other research in our letter. 4,5 I asked Emslie and the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, if they wanted to restore the trials. The fraud was grave.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. Avoid financial conflicts of interest with manufacturers of psychoactive drugs or other treatments, e.g. equipment for electroshock. I’ve never experienced anything like this before!

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RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

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Talking about a revolution”, it is time that society in large and mental health and legal policy more specifically, create an infrastructure that will enable to accept and support choices including those that involve risk. The process of deinstitutionalization has been seen as one of the revolutions in mental health care.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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This move “transformed pharmaceutical outfits into companies who market drugs rather than companies who manufacture drugs for the market.” There can even be a legal dimension in which a doctor is held culpable if he contravenes a guideline. The guidelines thus formed shape how doctors are trained and how they practice.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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Much as the court-watching movement shines a light on the unjust workings of the criminal-legal system , Shield activists show up to virtual hearings like Russell’s as witnesses to the injustices of the civil commitment system. Why does a religious organization have legal rights over a man’s life and body in a supposedly secular state?”

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Bristol Myers, along with the many other manufacturing plants located in the surrounding area, helped to grow and strengthen our local economy. By the mid-2000s, because of cheaper costs to manufacture penicillin in foreign countries, the plant downsized considerably.