Re: ADA Culpability for Mercury Fillings

From: Joel M. Eichen, D.D.S. (joeleichen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:54:31 -0400

AMALGAM is risk free .......

JOEL

**

On 13 Jun 2004 05:00:55 GMT, jdrew63929@aol.com (Jan) wrote:

>>Subject: Re: ADA Culpability for Mercury Fillings
>>From: Steven Bornfeld dentaltwinnospam@earthlink.net
>>Date: 6/12/2004 6:52 PM Pacific Standard Time
>>Message-id: <40CBC164.3030202@earthlink.net>
>>
>>
>>
>>Advocate147 wrote:
>>> "I heard that dentists get extra money for poisoning their patients to help
>>> keep the old ones off social security
>>>
>>> Is that correct?"
>>>
>>> They don't have to do anything, physicians and pharmaceutical companies are
>>> doing it all with an excellent job with their avid promotions of
>>stimulants.
>>> Anti-depressants being their favorite. Include in that mix, Risperdal,
>>which
>>> causes Tardive Dyskinesia or any anti-psychotic in large doses. The
>>> involuntary mouth movements which no NTI? can solve.
>>> Sorry to be the odd man out on this group, but Dr. Joel, sometimes your
>>words
>>> of humor strike a chord that is not funny if applied to stimulants. (not
>>your
>>> intention, I know)
>>> (Disclaimer: no relation to amalgams as used in dentistry.)
>>>
>>> FDA, are you listening.
>>> Deregulate the tranquillizers that do no harm, Ativan and Valium.
>>>
>>> Is this spam.
>>> And just to be on topic, At least in the dental profession, there is a
>>choice.
>>> No so, in the nursing homes and mental institutions.
>>>
>>> Disgusted Gail
>>> who is probably passing the disgust around.
>>
>> I know of no risk-free medication. None. Certainly not the
>>benzodiazepenes.
>> Certainly, SSRI-class drugs are far safer than phenothiazines, the main
>
>>culprit in drug-induced tardive dyskinesia. Most would consider them
>>safer than the tricyclic antidepressants. But none are risk-free, and
>>any can be abused.
>>
>>Steve
>
>Problem is we aren't being told the truth about SSRI's.
>
>http://www.prozactruth.com/article_witholding_evidence.htm
>
>
>Antidepressant Makers Withhold Data on Children
>By Shankar Vedantam
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Thursday, January 29, 2004; Page A01
>
>Makers of popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor have
>refused to disclose the details of most clinical trials involving depressed
>children, denying doctors and parents crucial evidence as they weigh fresh
>fears that such medicines may cause some children to become suicidal.
>
>The companies say the studies are trade secrets. Researchers familiar with the
>unpublished data said the majority of secret trials show that children taking
>the medicines did not get any better than children taking dummy pills.
>
>Although the drug industry's practice of suppressing data unfavorable to its
>products is legal, doctors and advocates say such secrecy distorts the
>scientific record.
>
>"Conflicts of interest and the company control of the data have thrown out the
>scientific method," said Vera Hassner Sharav, a critic of the drugs and a
>patients' rights advocate. "If hundreds of trials don't work out, they don't
>publish them, they don't talk about them."
>
>"We need a journal of negative findings," agreed Darrel Regier, director of the
>American Psychiatric Association's division of research, who believes the drugs
>save children's lives. "The probability of those negative findings being
>published is far less than the chances of positive studies -- -- the companies.
>"They have a legitimate right to do what they want with the data," he said.
>
>But David Healy, a Welsh psychiatrist and author of "The Antidepressant Era,"
>rejected the notion that the safety information could be treated like any other
>private property.
>
>Healy prescribes the medicines but has campaigned for more cautious use and
>more accurate labeling.
>
>"On a pressing issue like this," he said, "there is no reason these data could
>not be put into the public domain in their entirety."
>
>The FDA said it is evaluating 20 studies in all, but agency officials have
>declined to identify them.
>
>In the end, some scientists believe, the only way to ensure that science is
>conducted in the public interest is for it to be funded with public dollars.
>The National Institutes of Health is therefore ramping up funding for clinical
>trials.
>
>"We have been dependent on the pharmaceutical industry to provide the answers,"
>said Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. "The
>questions they want answered are different than the public health questions."
>
>Jan
>

Relevant Pages

  • Most Results Of Drug Studies Never Published
    ... By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat ... and patients know, and don't know, about new drugs. ... who traced the publication or otherwise of 909 ... and the ability of scientists to design safer and ...
    (sci.med.psychobiology)
  • Most Results Of Drug Studies Never Published
    ... By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat ... and patients know, and don't know, about new drugs. ... who traced the publication or otherwise of 909 ... and the ability of scientists to design safer and ...
    (misc.health.alternative)