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Mad in America
JUNE 18, 2024
Pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. Learn about the hidden costs to your well-being and the planet that prescription drugs are incurring every day, and explore therapeutic alternatives. In certain cases, pharmaceuticals can harm public health. A ccording to the IQVIA Institute report, “The Use of Medicines in the U.S.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 12, 2024
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require warnings for persistent sexual dysfunction, for example, and today the agency is attempting to defend itself from a lawsuit by the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen, which claims that it failed to respond to a 2018 petition to do so.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 13, 2023
You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. There is this growing grassroots resistance.
Mad in America
MARCH 20, 2024
When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. He wanted his friends to use this drug, he wanted his family members to use this drug. He was also a major user for an extended period.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
This isn’t an anxiety to pathologize or suppress, nor is it something we can avoid by just eating gluten-free food or avoiding caffeine. Our hormones, our gut health, micronutrient deficiencies, the degree to which we have inflammatory molecules coursing through our bloodstream—there’s an enormous influence from food.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Finally, physicians learned that bed rest was the worst thing that one can do for back pain. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, most pediatricians were opposed to breastfeeding and the accepted thinking at the time was that the baby was ready at six weeks to begin taking solid foods!
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
What is a teacher to make of such foolishness, or of such contempt for learning? However, Miss Brown will discover that John boy buys his lunch from the cafeteria, and since she’s not allowed to withhold food from him, he goes to the cafeteria to buy his lunch. Historically, the treatment would be discipline. Who has suffered more?
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