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Zyprexa Memos Leaked using Tor
freeculturenyu.org — The internal Ely Lilly memos have been leaked to the intenet using Tor. The anonymous post also launched a distributed netroots campaing organized around the 'zyprexakills' tag.
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- DannyHaszard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Zyprexa zenith to zonked
On November 28, 2001, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a letter written by Dr. Elizabeth Koller, an FDA medical officer, Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, a Duke University psychiatrist warning that according to FDA's MedWatch data, patients taking olanzapine (Zyprexa) were 10 times more likely to become diabetic than the general population. [JAMA Vol. 286 No. 20.]
The black box warning was put up too late mates!
At a glance,zyprexa was promoted 'off label' to uses that weren't FDA approved.This opens up a can of worms for patients like myself who took it for PTSD for which it was ineffective and moreover gave me diabetes.
It was Eli Lilly that manufactured,promoted and exaggerated the efficacy of it's defective zyprexa product.
Blaming my doctors or myself is like blaming the Supermarket vedor for a tainted brand name food product produced by a longtime trusted supplier.
If i bought a can of General Mills Green Giant string beans that had botulism I would blame the Jolly Green Giant wouldn't you?
True,leaked documents don't convey the 'whole picture' but what is compelling is that zyprexa is the 7th some say 5th largest drug sell in the world and Eli Lilly's #1 drug sale by their own admission.
This is for a drug that won't get you "high" cost $2.50 a pill and only indicated for less than 1% of the population.
Hello! Somebody in Lilly land is pushing zyprexa hard-Daniel Haszard - rondacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If my memort serves me well [and it usually does] Eli Lilly first conducted clinical trials on approximately 600 homeless individuals before taking this drug to market. Not a lot of chance for follow-up; a perfect opportunity to conduct "research" without quibbling too much about pesky little conditions such as informed consent I suppose.
Interesting that the Mainstream media don't give this story the coverage they continue to give to Merek for it's drug Vioxx; which, while it was found to have life threatening efects on some of its users, the actual numbers of people who have been adversely affected may be considerably lower. On the other hand, the complainants may have had more resources available to them than the much less visible ~ and consistently socally maligned ~ who are targeted and vilified already; namely folks stigmatized and "mentally ill."
The political connections that Lilly has with both high-placed Dems and Rethuglicans don't make me any more optimistic either.
Hopefull the second gag order will be lifted by some rare judge not already corrupted with campagain money from this poweerful drug company. - mark101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0HOW TO get a Tor
read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
1 goto http://letwist.net/operator look for " Download OperaTor 2.1" download and extract it.
2 run the opera browser and surf to wherever it may be - bigwyrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also available via bittorrent! http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3589817/ZyprexaKills.tar.gz
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