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• Wyeth reps no like Pristiq

  Published: April 21, 2008, 3:44 am

  Tags: Medicine Medication, Weblogs, Carlat, Carlat Psychiatry Blog, Desvenlafaxine, Drug Reps, Drugs, Effexor Xr, Marketing, Medication, Meds, Passion, People, Performance, Pristiq, Psych Drugs, Psychiatry, Slogans, Venlafaxine, Wyeth

  Oof. I'm just starting to read The Carlat Psychiatry Blog and stumbled upon this post about Wyeth drug reps trashing Pristiq. Wow. Carlat pulled an excerpt of a Wyeth rep mocking Pristiq's new marketing slogan: "People, Passion, Performance... Pristiq!""PEOPLE - 1/2 of you will be gone in less than 27 days PASSION - There is no passion now, but

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• Wyeth Pushing Pristiq Hard

  Published: April 22, 2008, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Medicine Medication, American Home Products, Antidepressant, Astrazeneca, Cnn Money, Cost, Desvenlafaxine, Discount, Drug, Drugs, Effexor, Effexor Xr, Eli Lilly, Fluoxetine, Heartburn Drug, Insurance, Insurance Companies, Medication, Meds, Patients, Pfizer, Prilosec, Pristiq

  The Wall Street Journal reports that Wyeth, desperate to make money off of its Effexor XR-knockoff, Pristiq, says it will slash the antidepressant at a 20% discount compared to Effexor's price. The price slash, CNN money reports, is a result of less-than-impressive clinical trial data on Pristiq's "safety and effectiveness."Wyeth SVP Joe Mahady

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• My official position on pharmaceutical companies and psychotropic meds

  Published: May 19, 2008, 9:02 pm

  Tags: Depression, Medicine Medication, Mental Illness, Personal Thoughts, Big Pharma, Celexa, Citalopram, Clpsych, Comments, Critical, Cynicism, Desvenlafaxine, Dr Carlat, Drug Companies, Drugs, Education, Effexor, Effexor Xr, Escitalopram, Generic, Gwen Olsen, Lexapro, Medication

  In previous posts, perhaps I've come off a little bit as "I hate Big Pharma." I did. For a while. I'm not in love with pharmaceutical companies either. I've quoted it before but "to whom much is given, much is required." As a result of accumulating knowledge through reading and research, I know a whole lot more about pharmaceutical companies,

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• Poor Wyeth New drug delayed in FDA approval

  Published: May 23, 2008, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Medicine Medication, News, Bazedoxifene, Blood Clots, Desvenlafaxine, Drug, Effexor, Fda Approval, Forbes Com, Medication, Meds, Myocardial Infarctions, Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal, Postmenopause, Pristiq, Strokes, Venlafaxine, Wyeth, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

  From Forbes.com: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals just can't seem to catch a break. The company is not only increasingly worried that it will lose a large chunk of its revenues to generic competition, it also faces the ongoing threat that its pipeline is starting to go dry. A further delay in the approval of its postmenopausal osteoporosis drug has become

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• Pharma's "me-too" drugs face skeptical docs and health insurers

  Published: May 29, 2008, 1:24 pm

  Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine Medication, Mental Illness, News, Adderall, Adderall Xr, Adhd, Antidepressant, Big Pharma, Daniel Carlat, Depression, Desvenlafaxine, Doctors, Drugs, Effexor, Fda Approval, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, Invega, J J, Janssen, Johnson

  As patents expire on a variety of drugmakers' moneymakers, pharma companies have gone to great lengths to structurally reinvent the successful drugs then tout the benefits that differ from their predecessors. Case in point Johnson & Johnson's Invega. Invega is the successor to the popular antipsychotic drug, Risperdal, and competitor

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• Lexapro maintains status as first-line antidepressant therapy

  Published: June 3, 2008, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Depression, Medicine Medication, Mental Illness, News, Antidepressants, Decision Resources, Depression, Desvenlafaxine, Drug, Effexor, Escitalopram, Health Insurance, Investor, Lexapro, Major Depressive Disorder, Medication, Pcp, Primary Care Physicians, Pristiq, Psych Drug

  a bright future for Pristiq (desvenlafaxine). Physicians are expected to move patients from Effexor to Pristiq-a newly approved SNRI- over the next two years. ... Pristiq will begin to replace Wyeth's Effexor XR and Lilly's Cymbalta, especially in psychiatrists' practices.This is an interesting analysis from DR considering that psychiatrists,

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• Lexapro maintains status as first-line antidepressant therapy

  Published: June 3, 2008, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Depression, Medicine Medication, Mental Illness, News, Antidepressants, Decision Resources, Depression, Desvenlafaxine, Drug, Effexor, Escitalopram, Health Insurance, Investor, Lexapro, Major Depressive Disorder, Medication, Pcp, Primary Care Physicians, Pristiq, Psych Drug

  a bright future for Pristiq (desvenlafaxine). Physicians are expected to move patients from Effexor to Pristiq-a newly approved SNRI- over the next two years. ... Pristiq will begin to replace Wyeth's Effexor XR and Lilly's Cymbalta, especially in psychiatrists' practices.This is an interesting analysis from DR considering that psychiatrists,

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• John Grohol interviews Wyeth's VP of Medical Affairs on Pristiq

  Published: July 8, 2008, 3:09 pm

  Tags: Depression, Medicine Medication, Mental Illness, Suicide, Weblogs, Antidepressant, Depression, Desvenlafaxine, Discontinuation Symptoms, Drugs, Effexor, Effexor Xr, Fda, Ham D, Hamilton Rating Scale For Depression, Madrs, Medication, Medicine, Meds, Montgomery Asberg Depres

  Dr. Grohol interviewed Dr. Phil Ninan, Wyeth's VP of Medical Affairs on Pristiq, its efficacy, and surrounding issues. It was quite an interesting interview (and long) but here are some highlights that I chose to comment on. I'll be making some comments in between Dr. Ninan's answers due to the extensive length. Some parts of the answers have been

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• 2-Year Anniversary: The Long and Winding Road

  Published: July 22, 2008, 3:27 pm

  Tags: Personal Thoughts, Anniversary, Antidepressants, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Blog, Blogs, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bpd, Celebrities, Depression, Depression Introspection, Desvenlafaxine, Diagnoses, Diagnosis, Drugs, Educating, Education, Educational Tool, Effexor, Eve

  and   Pristiq/desvenlafaxine.   Other popular posts have included the Zoloft/rage connection and the link between Singulair and suicidal behavior. I don't specialize in sharing my experience on wellness and recovery  those are better left to wellness, withdrawal, and  recovery blogs but there seems to

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