Tag: Paxil

Brisdelle and Paxil : the Continuing Exploitation Of Menopausal Women

Worst Pills Best Pills, by Dr. Sidney Wolfe

The Continuing Exploitation Of Menopausal Women
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Medicalizing a normal phase of women’s lives — menopause — for the purpose of selling drugs began decades ago, and it continues on relentlessly. To wit: according to extensive advertising by the drug company Noven, menopausal women will this month have access to “the first and only FDA-approved non-hormonal therapy for moderate to severe hot flashes associated with menopause.”

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Sources: Worst Pills, Best Pills Newsletter Articles, November 2013.

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AntiDepressants and Pregnancy: Class-Action Suit highlights expectant Mothers rising use of SSRIs

The controversy surrounding antidepressants and pregnancy

The controversy surrounding antidepressants and pregnancy
The controversy surrounding antidepressants and pregnancy

” Last December, the Supreme Court of British Columbia set a bold precedent: it green-lit the first class action suit in Canada alleging that an antidepressant taken by a woman during pregnancy caused a birth defect in her child. Faith Gibson of Surrey, B.C., named “representative plaintiff,” had been prescribed Paxil, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), in December 2002. Her daughter, Meah Bartram, was born in September 2005 with a hole in her heart. The defect was repaired months later, but Meah remains a “sickly” child, prone to infection. Two weeks after her birth, Health Canada and Paxil’s manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (GSK), issued an advisory stating that paroxetine (Paxil’s generic name) taken in the first trimester may pose “an increased risk” of cardiovascular defects. ”

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by Anne Kingston, April 20, 2013