Study: Most children's medicines contain confusing measuring devices

Study: Most children's medicines contain confusing measuring devices

Doctors are urging caution with over-the-counter children's medicine as new research released today shows that many products are confusing and could lead to deadly overdoses.

The study found that of 148 products that came with measuring devices, almost all of them - 146 - had inconsistencies between the directions in or on the package and the markings on the device. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at the 200 top-selling pediatric liquid medications in late 2008 and through October of 2009.

More than 1000 children in the West Midlands falsely labeled drugs and psychiatrists

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Birmingham today released the figures in the Freedom of Information Act highlighting the psychiatric infiltration of the education system and subsequent damage to young girls? S minds in the West Midlands and Birmingham.

More than 1000 children in the West Midlands falsely labeled drugs and psychiatrists

Psychiatric medication in young children

Psychiatric medication in young children

I cam across this article recently from the New York Times. It discusses the case of a young boy who was started on an antipsychotic medication when he was 18 months old, and by the time he was three, he was on an antidepressant, antipsychotic, sleeping tablets, and something for ADD (presumably a stimulant).

Johnson & Johnson Fails to Correct Tylenol and Motrin Quality Control Problems

Johnson & Johnson continues to have troubles with its pharmaceutical plant in Puerto Rico, where subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare had to recall millions of bottles of Tylenol, Motrin and other products in January. The latest bad news for Johnson & Johnson came from the Food and Drug Administration after inspectors found numerous problems with the Puerto Rican operation.

Johnson & Johnson Fails to Correct Tylenol and Motrin Quality Control Problems

More teens getting dangerous prescriptions

The chance that a teenager or young adult will receive a prescription for a controlled medication has nearly doubled in the last 15 years in the U.S., according to a new report.

More teens getting dangerous prescriptions

Are drug companies too eager to medicate children?

Are drug companies too eager to medicate children?

It was disturbing to read about the dramatic increase in diagnosed cases of ADHD in N.C. between 2003 and 2007 (“Cases of ADHD rocket in state,” AC-T, Nov. 20). This huge increase in such a short time frame seems inexplicable. In the mid-1990s, there was an explosion in the number of people diagnosed with ADHD once adults were included and the inattentive type of ADHD recognized. Expansion in diagnostic criteria and several popular books like “Driven to Distraction” and “Out of the Fog” increased public awareness of this disorder.

Orphans Used by CPS + Catholic Services in Drug Experiments

BBC Documentary 'Guinea Pig Kids'. The House That AIDS Built.

How Children Feel on Psychiatric Medication including Prozac

A child's view on psychiatric medication and how it made them feel

Around 40 children fall sick after polio drug administration

Around 40 children fall sick after polio drug administration

Kids' ER visits fell after cold medicines' removal

Kids' ER visits fell after cold medicines' removal

CHICAGO — Removing cough and cold medicines for very young children from store shelves led to a big decline in emergency room visits for bad reactions to the drugs, government research found.

Call for information on drugging foster children

Call for information on drugging foster children

GAO investigating drugging of children

At the request of Congress, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) is seeking information regarding cases in which state foster children have been prescribed psychotropic medication outside of federal regulations or accepted medical standards of practice.

Guarding a child’s best interests

National School Psychology Awareness Week takes place each year during the second week of November. This is a time set aside for efforts to promote awareness and understanding of the field of school psychology. So, who are school psychologists and what exactly do they do? To begin with, they are trained at the graduate level in the areas of both education and psychology. They use this training to help children in the areas of academics, social and behavioral relations. School psychologists do receive highly specialized training for working in educational settings, but in most cases they are not doctors and they are not licensed for private practice as a psychologist. School psychologists are trained to advocate for the best interests of children while also collaborating with parents, teachers and administrators. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on providing positive learning environments for children in school.

Guarding a child’s best interests

The Four Main Theories in Child Development

The Four Main Theories in Child Development

Ideas about children and their development have varied across different times and cultural contexts. However, within the discipline of child development within psychology four common views about how children develop have been identified.

Is Nevada overmedicating foster children?

Is Nevada overmedicating foster children?

They're Nevada's foster children--and as Contact 13 Chief Investigator Darcy Spears uncovered, they're being given potentially dangerous and powerful drugs that they may not need... with taxpayers footing the bill.

Review rules on meds for foster kids

Review rules on meds for foster kids

Tommy made good grades in the first grade, and his teacher said he was a big help and a delight to have in the classroom. Soon after this report card was sent home, Tommy’s toddler sister drowned in the bathtub while Tommy was watching her and his other siblings. Tommy’s parents were arrested, the surviving children entered foster care and Tommy’s early successes and hopes for the future began to fade.

Preschool Depression

SPECIAL REPORT: To many parents, diagnosing a child with depression as young as 2-years-old sound unconscionable. Many ask, what child doesn’t cry or become irritable? What toddler doesn’t become bored or unhappy at times?

Brain scan 'predicts if kids with anxiety disorder will respond to talk therapy'

Neuroscientists at the Georgetown University Medical Center have pointed out that a brain scan with functional MRI (fMRI) was enough to predict which patients with paediatric anxiety disorder will respond to 'talk therapy', and so may not need to use psychiatric medication.

Brain scan 'predicts if kids with anxiety disorder will respond to talk therapy'

Have You Had Your Ritalin Today?

In the past, society believed that the world was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth. Today we believe that the government knows what's best for us and that the drug Ritalin (Methylphenidate) is a cure for the brain disorders Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Have You Had Your Ritalin Today?

Ex-Glaxo Executive Is Charged in Drug Fraud

In a rare move, the Justice Department on Tuesday announced that it had charged a former vice president and top lawyer for the British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline with making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation into illegal marketing of the antidepressant Wellbutrin for weight loss.

Ex-Glaxo Executive Is Charged in Drug Fraud

ADHD rates on the rise among U.S. children - CDC report

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder that typically begins in childhood and often persists into adulthood. ADHD is characterized by developmentally inappropriate levels of inattention and hyperactivity resulting in functional impairment in academic, family, and social settings (1). ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed neurobehavioral disorder of childhood, with previous reports documenting increasing trends in prevalence during the past decade and increases in ADHD medication use (2,3). National estimates of the number of children reported by their parents to have ever been diagnosed with ADHD and the percentage of children with ADHD currently taking ADHD medications were published in 2005 using data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (4,5). This report describes results from the second administration of NSCH in 2007 (6), which indicated that the percentage of children aged 4--17 years with a parent-reported ADHD diagnosis (ever) increased from 7.8% to 9.5% during 2003--2007, representing a 21.8% increase in 4 years. The findings in this report help to further characterize the substantial impact of ADHD on families.

ADHD rates on the rise among U.S. children - CDC report

Drugging the children in America: 84 percent of ADHD kids put on medication

According to a new survey by Consumer Reports, 84 percent of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are treated with drugs at some point.

Drugging the children in America: 84 percent of ADHD kids put on medication

More ADHD drugs given to children

More ADHD drugs given to children

Prescriptions for mood-altering psychiatric drugs given to children has gone up by 20 per cent over the last four years.

Peter Breggin - Antidepressants (O'Reilly Factor - 9 Jan 02)

Dr. Peter Breggin (breggin.com) has been the medical expert in countless court cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This unusual position has given him unprecedented access to private pharmaceutical research and correspondence files, information from which informs this straight-talking guide to the most prescribed and controversial category of drugs: antidepressants.

Don't Give This to Your Daughter - Despite What Your Doctor Says

It's been four years since Gardasil debuted as a blockbuster vaccine with sales that rocketed to over $1.1 billion in its first nine months.

Don't Give This to Your Daughter - Despite What Your Doctor Says

How to Sue Drug Companies for Free

Defective drug legislation is big right now. Pharma is rapidly becoming the next big tobacco but on a much grander scale.

Class action lawsuits with 10,000s of victims are lashing out against drug firms while even State governments level more lawsuits against them.

Law firms are suing pharmaceutical companies for unethical marketing practices, a failure to warn the public about potentially harmful and sometimes deadly side effects when they were known about prior to marketing, downplaying side effects while hyping up benefits, etc.

If you have been damaged by a medication you can potentially sue and in most cases lawyers will take your case for free.

Some drugs that are listed on law office websites as defective drugs include; Vioxx, Bextra, Celebrex, Crestor, Baycol, Viagra, Cialis, Risperdal, Seroguel, Zyprexa, Adderall, Ritalin, Neurotin, Paxil, Prozac, Ambien, Zoloft.

Some defective drugs have been associated with death, suicide, homicide, neurological damage, heart attacks, diabetes, excessive weight gain, sexual dysfunction, impertinency, vision loss and a host of other side effects.

Virtually every psychotropic (psychiatric) drug is listed on some defective drug website including antidepressants, antipsychotic, anti-anxiety medications (anxiolytics), etc.

Drug companies that are being sued include Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Janssen, Abbott, Novartis, Wyeth, etc.

You can get a free legal consultations just by doing a search with the drug name and the world lawyer.