Cancer’s one thing, a real disease. J&J’s drug, Risperdal, and its Classmate Atypical antipsychotics do not cure Anything, nor can they legally claim to cure anything. and FDA told J&J in Dec ‘93 just before they approved it that FDA would consider it a violation of the FDCA for J&J to advertise of promote it as being safer or more effective than the older typical antipsychotics.
http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf
(pg 23)
“1. One in every 145 patients who entered the trials died, and yet those deaths were never mentioned in the scientific literature.
2. The trials were structured to favor the Atypicals and most of the study reports were discounted by the FDA as being biased.
3. One in every thirty-five patients in Risperdal trials experienced a serious adverse event, defined by the FDA as a life threatening event or one that required hospitalization.
4. Twenty-two percent of patients in Zyprexa trials suffered serious adverse events
5. The Atypicals did not demonstrate superior effectiveness or safety over Typical antipsychotics.
It is important to note that a drug company does not have to prove that a new drug is safer or more effective than an old drug to gain FDA approval. Essentially, the manufacturer has to demonstrate that the drug is proved to yield better results than placebo in a statistically significant number of patients in short-term trials (6-8 weeks). “
1 in 35 patients, back to the ER or the morgue.
Yes, it is expensive ginning up a loser into a blockbuster, no denying it, especially when the product is such a pig that the makers have to hire out of work Star Trek writers to put Lipstick on it.
So are you saying that manic depression and schizophrenia are not real diseases because they cannot be cured but only “managed?”
Let’s not kid ourselves here, science isn’t certainty. This society has become so failure averse, and as a result, so risk intolerant, that nothing really bold is underway anymore.
Why take a chance when a pack of flesh-eating tort shysters will wreck your company? Not that they did a single thing for the permanent benefit of humanity in their entire miserable lives.
Brain science? That’s an oxymoron. Nobody knows anything about the brain, and if they do they are lying. It’s like magnetism. It’s ‘FM’. F***ing Magic.
They feed people things, watch what happens, and then indicate it for psych disorders. What works for one guy, doesn’t for the other. The one’s it works for scream bloody murder if they can’t get it. The other half want to sue.