Site Updates 13 July - 20 July 2007

07/20/2007 -

• I promised more new content. Thanks to girrl88 we have pages on Invega (paliperidone)! New content about a new med that isn't even that old. Sweeet.
• How the hell could I have forgotten "Interesting stuff you doctor probably won't tell you about BuSpar"?
• Found this article, which explains how the drug companies are able to fudge the numbers in their favor for the studies. I've added it to the page explaining my pages on drug efficacy.
• While working on the Invega pages I figured I could make the section on how Risperdal works a bit clearer. You still have to scroll all the way to the bottom of an over-long page to find it, but that's something for later to deal with.

07/14/2007 -

• Geez, I have been sleeping through Effexor XR's approvals or what? So the page is updated a bit, and is pretty much all about the XR version. The latest PI sheet is available for Effexor XR as well.

07/13/2007 -

• Updated Wellbutrin's approvals to include Wellbutrin XL's approval to prevent seasonal major depression for people with seasonal affective disorder. That includes getting the latest PI sheet for Wellbutrin XL.

Updates to Crazy Meds 5 July - 12 July 2007

07/12/2007 -

• Updated Risperdal's approvals to include pediatric schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Not that we deal with kids here, but an approval is an approval. I also fixed the screwed up katakana on the Risperdal pages and added links to Russian and Arabic PI sheets. I think all of my non-Latin fonts got hosed during a Front Page hiccough followed by a mass update. The errors are now being fixed as I come across them, as I originally thought it was just a browser error on my end.
• Corrected some grammatical wackiness that was an artifact from a previous version of the benzodiazepines page.
• As mentioned in the update of 5 July, I needed a hall of shame. Presenting Crazy Meds' Copyright Violators' and Plagiarizers' Halls of Shame. As Copyscape and I find them, the better examples of both types of intellectual property theft will be presented as I deal with them. Not-so-egregious cases that are quickly resolved will never show up here.

07/06/2007 -

• Updated the Lexapro page with a whole bunch of international PI sheets.
• Also found some Topamax, Prozac and Paxil.
• Fixed and/or added the names of medications in non-Western fonts. Now a bunch of question marks shouldn't appear. At least they look fine now.

07/05/2007 -

• Updated the Zoloft page a bit, as the discussion about its effect on dopamine reuptake inhibition came up yet again.
• The intellectual property theft is getting out of hand. Not just with the couple of annoying thieves I've had to deal with of late. I've had people on various fora copy an entire page here and there, often with credit, sometimes not. People on boards do that to everyone, big and small, so I would shrug it off. But I'm now seeing all sorts of wholesale copying done of entire pages that goes beyond the lack of credit. Oh no, the pages with all of my content are presented as if written by people involved with various sites without a forum or on a non-forum part of the site. So I'm protecting the site via Copyscape. Thus banners of diverse sizes like this:

I may have to set up an intellectual property theft hall of shame, in addition to the legal notices that will be sent out.

Crazy Meds Site Updates for 3 July 2007

• Finally, new content! Jessica sent in some information on BuSpar and once the stress of having to micromanage the overly-complicated life of an utterly ungrateful person was lifted, I could put the new data into our spiffy new format. So here they are, BuSpar pages! Yay! Coming soon, Invega.
• The bibliography has a new look. At this point it's become easier just to show you the source material than to list it all.