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From: Questionable Doctors Health Update
Date: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:46:49 AM
To: HEALTHUPDATE@LISTSERVER.CITIZEN.ORG
Subject: New Prescription Drug Resource from Public Citizen
From: Dr. Sidney Wolfe
Within the next 12 months, it is likely that a prescription medication you
or a loved one is taking will be discussed in Worst Pills, Best Pills News
Online.
Over 1 million Americans die or suffer from dangerous drug-induced illness
every year. Learn how to protect yourself and your family from dangerous
medications by reading Public Citizen's newest online publication, Worst
Pills, Best Pills News Online. Visit http://www.worstpills.org/qdhu for a
FREE sample issue and also more information about our introductory
subscription offer, which includes:
- 12 monthly online issues of Worst Pills, Best Pills News Online with the
latest news and warnings on medications. Each month we will deliver the
latest issue's Table of Contents directly to your computer.
- Archive of back issues from January 2001 to the present searchable by drug
name, disease or condition, or drug-induced adverse effect.
- E-mail alerts about new drug dangers from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration and other sources.
- Lifesaving information on adverse drug reactions including: 148 drugs that
can cause depression; 128 drugs that can cause sexual dysfunction; and 36
drugs that can cause Parkinsonism.
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scope of medical expertise concerning prescription drugs:
Elizabeth Barbehenn, PhD, was trained as a biochemist and was a researcher
at the National Institutes of Health for 10 years. Subsequently, she worked
for the Food and Drug Administration as a pharmacologist for 13 years
analyzing toxicity data from animal studies on prescription drugs. She has
been with our group since 1998 where she continues her work analyzing drug
safety.
Deanne E. Knapp, PhD was trained as a social psychologist. From 1971 to 2002
she was Adjunct Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland where
she taught and performed research on the topic of drug utilization. During
the same time period, she was a Technical Information Specialist with the
FDA where she designed electronic systems to detect and monitor the
reporting of adverse drug reactions.
Peter Lurie, MD, MPH is the Deputy Director of the Health Research Group. He
has held faculty positions at the University of California, San Francisco
and the University of Michigan. After obtaining his medical degree from the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he completed residencies in Family
Practice and Preventive Medicine/epidemiology. He has written on the subject
of needle exchange programs and on ethical aspects of drug and vaccine
trials in developing countries and has authored articles on the safety and
effectiveness of various drugs.
Larry Sasich, PharmD, MPH, FASHP has experience in community and hospital
pharmacy and in pharmacy education, teaching the first required course in
drug information while a faculty member at the Idaho State University
College of Pharmacy. Dr. Sasich has a long-standing interest in the
dissemination of objective drug information to both health professionals and
the public. He has been the principal author of Worst Pills, Best Pills News
since coming to the Health Research Group in 1995.
Paul Stolley, MD is a practicing internist who has spent more than three
decades as a teacher and research epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and finally
as Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine. His main research interests are
adverse drug reactions and prevention of cancer. He has co-authored three
books in the field of epidemiology and over 200 articles. He recently spent
a sabbatical year at the FDA in the division conducting post market
surveillance of drugs. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences and a former President of the American College
of Epidemiology and the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
Sidney Wolfe, MD, has been the Director of the Health Research Group since
its creation in 1971. Having previously done research on drug toxicity, in
1966 he began working at the National Institutes of Health where he did
research on aspects of blood-clotting. Since 1995, he has been an Adjunct
Professor of Internal Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine. His medical degree is from Case Western University in Cleveland
Ohio and his internship and residency were in internal medicine. He is
currently a member of the Society for General Internal Medicine. His awards
include receiving the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1990.