BOB FIDDAMAN

The hell of Aropax withdrawal Following on from Part I Like a Lamb to the Slaughter of Mark's trilogy of guest posts. This post sees Mark describe the frustrations and hardships ofwithdrawingfrom GlaxoSmithKline's Aropax, known in the UK as Seroxat and in the US and Canada as Paxil. Life at and Esca...
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Roche NZ, lengthy response to consumer query So, you feel suicidal, maybe you've self-harmed, maybe your child has been born with a heart defect or brainabnormality- you could be a parent who has lost a child to suicide or a wifehusband who is mourning the loss of a partner. If you fall into any of ...
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Far be it from me, a blogger, to give doctors a lesson in managing antidepressant withdrawal... but I'm going to anyway. I've been writing this blog for 8 years now and, over this period of time, have been inundated with emails from patients struggling with withdrawal issues from their medication. M...
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This year's 4th annual PharmedOut conference is hitting town and, judging by the speaker list, looks like it's going to be the best yet. Highlight of this year's conference, for me at least, is the 'surprise guest' from a major pharmaceutical company who is going to be talking aboutethical conflicts...
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18 year old Sara Carlin Today May 6 marks the 6 year anniversary of the death of Oakville teen, Sara Carlin. Sara tragically took her life back in 2007 and her much publicized 2010 inquest saw her parents, Neil and Rhonda, face teams of lawyers representing doctors and GlaxoSmithKline. Sara had, aro...
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