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This letter was email to Dr Dal Pan today July 29, 2026 See Stolen Lives and Prescribed Harm Awareness Dr Gerald Dal Pan druginfo@fda.hhs.gov Dear Dr Dal Pan I listened with interest to your recent interview with Dr Celia Williams in a Q A with FDA series, where you were asked which types [ ] The post Can Stealing be Regulated first appeared on Dr. David Healy .
This post is written by Katinka Newman. It links to Prescribed Harm Awareness Day on RxISK. Three years ago, on 29 July, a small group of us gathered together in Hyde Park, London. It was something we set up through Antidepressant Risks, the not-for-profit I founded to improve informed consent around antidepressants and other psychiatric [ ] The post Stolen Lives Goes Global first appeared on Dr.…
δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν When the Peloponnesian War broke out in Greece 2,500 years ago between Athens and Sparta, the Athenians told the islanders living on Melos you are either with us or against us . Athens had created democracy, had all the famous philosophers, dramatists, politicians and control of the [ ] The post You Say Retractable, We Say Intractable…
To be read in conjunction with A Human Touch. Thanks to Peter Selley, who found this Industry News, we who sail in RxISK now know we feature in an historical milestone. We had filed a Petition with FDA just under 8 years ago asking for Isotretinoin Labels to include mention of the enduring sexual dysfunction it [ ] The post The Black Hole of Modernity first appeared on Dr. David Healy .
Very nearly 3 decades ago, I got involved in an American lawsuit. Forsyth v Eli Lilly Bill Forsyth was a wealthy man even before he sold the land his car rental business was on to Los Angeles airport. He and his wife, June, left Los Angeles for Maui in 1990, which as anyone who’s been [ ] The post Watch Out. Innocent Abroad first appeared on Dr. David Healy .
Last Wednesday, I had a letter from Michael Davis, the Acting Director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. It wasn’t a complete surprise to get a letter. I’d written to Dr Davis 3 weeks beforehand about MedDRA codes for PSSD and about PSSD more generally. But his letter was not a response to [ ] The post Regulators Bearing Gifts first appeared on Dr. David Healy .
This image and one below is taken from the Sequencing.com website. Will Powers got his PFS patients to get Whole Genome Sequencing done through sequencing.com. He read the resulting information using gene.iobio. The system powers-that-be is/are unhappy with developments like this for several reasons. One concern is that our genetic data may reveal risks [ ] The post Grasping the Gene Genie first…
See below for an explanation of this image. Will Powers work on Post-Finasteride Syndromes (PFS) has generated a lot of interest. It would be easy to misread the responses. This post asks people with PSSD and PAS to get what are often called Dutch tests done. The U in Dutch stands for Urine. Can send [ ] The post Ending Enduring Sexual Dysfunctions first appeared on Dr. David Healy .
This picture comes from a meeting last week in Detroit aimed at tackling and solving the enduring sexual problems linked to Isotretinoin, SSRIs and Finasteride See Enduring Sexual Problems World Congress. This was a small but intense and exciting meeting. A great deal of the excitement was linked to some findings Will Powers, a [ ] The post Calling Isotretinoin and SSRI Problem Solvers first…
A distinguished colleague (C1) introduced last year s word of the year AI Slop into last week s The Prozac Liberation Front post. As an unaccountable editor, I took the liberty to suggest that many of us seemed to figure or would pretty soon get round to figuring that AI was all too [ ] The post AI versus the Deep State first appeared on Dr. David Healy .