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Hannu Ikonen, MD | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Holy fucking busy day.

PSA: There is no causal or even controlled correlational requirement for the FDA to slap Psychiatric Black Box warnings on things. 

Montelukast for example. 

Or the 2000s study where they blamed suicides on a med before autopsy was done, and in autopsies there was no med found in patients system.
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Hannu Ikonen, MD | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 further, effective treatment of Epilepsy is known to have an 8fold increased risk of depression.

Do we stop treating seizures?

Treating pro-inflammatory asthma & allergies is important. Deciding to do a shit job cuz <spurious FDA association> is a bad choice.
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f2419bbb | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @46cd5609 there was a day they were an august data driven institution

Bless them for their decisions on haldol and thorazine