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(Note this is a delayed posting) Tomorrow, the FDA is convening a hearing with two advisory committees--Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee and the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee--to consider adding "Black Box" warnings about the risk of suicide linked to 11 epilepsy (anti-seizure) drugs: Carbamazepine (marketed as CARBATROL, Shire, EQUETRO, Validus, TEGRETOL,Novartis); felbamate ( FELBATOL, Meda ); gabapentin (NEURONTIN, Pfizer); lamotrigine (LAMICTAL,
First Chantix Lawsuit Filed
One of the first lawsuits over Pfizers smoking cessation drug, Chantix, is becoming official this week. The lawsuit alleges that the use of Chantix led David Collins of Gas City, Indiana, to commit suicide in January and that Pfizer failed to issue proper warnings about psychiatric side effects. Collins widow, Linda, filed the suit Tuesday ...
Share your HypnoThoughts
If you are feeling sleepy, very sleepy, theres a chance youre getting drawn into HypnoThoughts.com, an online hypnosis community. But snap out of it! Theres some cool stuff to check out here. The videos page includes some classic hypnosis gags, including this one where people are told they have an eyeball on the tip of their fingers. But the network isnt all fun and games at the forum, professionals discuss important applications of hypnosis like smoking cessation. And members get a
Forget New Years Resolutions They Dont Work
You can forget about making New Years Resolutions if youre hoping for a successful outcome. Most arent worth the paper theyre written on. No less than Mark Twain has written of New Years Resolutions, "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we sha
Genetic Link to Teen Tobacco Addiction
Genetic Link to Teen Tobacco Addiction July 12th, 2008 July 11, 2008 Smokers under age 17 whove inherited common genetic variations may be much more likely to face a lifetime of tobacco addiction. Researchers have found that European-Americans who begin daily smoking at an early age are at greater risk for long-term nicotine addiction if they carry a specific genetic variation within a certain gene cluster. The findings suggest that preventing tobacco use in early adolescence could have
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