Dr. Nancy Olivieri
Prominent Toronto haematologist, researcher and whistleblower.
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'Stuff needs to change': Family of man who died of COVID-19 appalled by level of care at Parkview Place | CBC News
CBC 121d 2 tweets
Yvette Mathieu and her mother are packing up the family's St. Boniface home — the one they had to sell to help afford to put her father in Parkview Place care home — where he died last week of COVID-19.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri An echo of the experience of so many of us, looking back on the world of #LTC: "I wish I knew more back then, and could have fought harder to get my Dad somewhere else.” #TimeToCareAct 121d
Failure to enforce Vanessa's Law is a deadly game - iPolitics
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Fifteen-year-old Vanessa Young of Oakville, Ont., died of a heart attack on March 19, 2000, after taking the prescription drug Prepulsid. Her father, Terence Young, established Drug Safety Canada in 2001 and has advocated for regulatory reform...
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Terence Young, Founder of #DrugSafetyCanada, author of Death by Prescription, speaks this wk at our #UofT course #HST440. He writes here about how #secrecy around #drugs kills: #deadlysecrets 130d
How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs - Mad In America
Mad In America 141d 3 tweets
Joanna Moncrieff reflects on what has and has not changed in the field of psychiatric drug treatment in the past 11 years.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Thx #HST440 students: great for next month's discussion on #SSRIs. “If drug regulatory agencies are not interested in data on safety of #psychiatric drugs, then there is clearly no incentive for #Pharma to produce it" 137d
Opioid marketing to Canadian doctors hyped benefits, downplayed harms
The Conversation 260d 2 tweets
Aggressive marketing of prescription opioids by pharmaceutical companies provided doctors with scant information about potential harmful effects.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Thx ! And here's more reading (on #opioids AND #conflictsofinterest) by past & current #HST440 guest lecturers, Drs Joel Lexchin & Barbara Mintzes, writing about how #Purdue paid & gifted "prominent" CDN MDs to promote opioids #accountability? 143d
Racism, Not Race, Drives Inequity Across the COVID-19 Continuum
Jamanetwork.com 152d 6 tweets
Since the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, significant racial and ethnic inequities have persisted across the continuum of COVID-19 morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality. The US Centers for Disease Control and...
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri And also this #HST440 students: “Rather than validating long-debunked hypotheses about intrinsic biological susceptibilities among racial groups, the evidence reaffirms structural #racism is a critical driving force behind #COVID disparities” 146d
Infection Super-Spreaders: Whose Department? | Dr. David Healy
Davidhealy.org 171d 6 tweets
This is a murky story that like Study 329, to which it links, doesn't leave anyone looking good. First the journal – Frontiers in Psychiatry – which is one of
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri .:"Meta analyses" of clinical trials simply re-circulate & re-summarize ghostwritten articles which had no access to raw data in the first place. As #Pharma ‘manages' most trials, this is true not only for #antidepressants but most other drugs 166d
FDA is incapable of protecting US “against another Vioxx”
PubMed Central (PMC) 167d 1 tweets
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri As #FDA officials claim to "stay true to our mission as we fulfill our duty to the public," one remembers: Rezulin, Lotronex, Redux, Raxar, Vioxx, Duract, Propulsid, Accutane, Avandia and others. Have there been changes since this? thanks : 167d
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri ...is this "distinguished example of investigative reporting" by David Willman, : an exposé of unsafe drugs approved by #FDA with analysis of the policy ‘reforms' that reduced FDA’s effectiveness 185d
Conflicts of Interest Continue to Plague Oncology Guidelines and Research - Cancer Therapy Advisor
Cancer Therapy Advisor 225d 8 tweets
New research presented at ASCO 2020 sheds light on conflicts of interest among NCCN panelists and links industry dollars to measures of academic success among junior faculty.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Thx Disturbing trend; also disturbing is correlation of #COIs w/ measures of junior faculty's acad success: Always mindful of Krimsky's great line: “We would not permit a judge equity in a for-profit prison, even if the judge disclosed it” 211d
University reopening plans under fire
Science 216d 4 tweets
> Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation Come August, hundreds of universities across the United States are poised to reopen their campuses with a mix of online and in-person courses....
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Thanks More views on university re-openings from US academics: “The idea of a university playing those kinds of odds is ethically troubling.” 216d
Motherisk Scandal | News | Toronto Star
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The Star's ongoing coverage of the scandal around the Hospital for Sick Children's Motherisk drug testing laboratory. Read more at thestar.com.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri None of this is theoretical (see ) and it's not ancient history And no, it is not in the interests of #patientsafety to Move On. Another revealing article outlining the recent situation: 231d
Motherisk crook Gideon Koren now at Ariel University
Leonid Schneider (visit my site for C - For Better Science 241d 2 tweets
The Israeli Ariel University recruited a doctor from hell to their newly established medical school: Gideon Koren, infamous for Motherisk and deferiprone scandals.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Now, indepent review of Koren 'questionable’ papers (400? 1000?) has become an “internal review” (while a Koren co-author & former supporter #UofT Dean, call for yet another retraction). Are we going to do this 398 more times? Thanx for 231d
Drugs, money and misleading evidence
Nature.com 241d 13 tweets
It’s time to take trials out of the hands of pharmaceutical makers, argues the latest in a long line of books on corruption and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Worth many RTs. New book, great title, great read. Expert authors expose the erosion & distortion of #EBM includ'g thru manipulation, omission of #research data, #promotion of drugs: Reviewed: #ethics #philosophy #science #BIgPharma 231d
Repetition Compulsion to the Death or Beyond? | Dr. David Healy
Davidhealy.org 331d 3 tweets
This post is all about a marvellous article by Arthur Schafer on Conflict of Interest - or something like that. See below. But first some background. In the
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Brilliant. explores "enduring mysteries" including why #UHN still stonewalling about #informedconsent, #deaths and #drugtoxicity during #unlicensed drug exposure: "Ideas on how to explain what seems close to inexplicable are welcome" 331d
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri None of this is theoretical (see ) and it's not ancient history And no, it is not in the interests of #patientsafety to Move On. Another revealing article outlining the recent situation: 231d
Changing Language to Improve Physician Communication About Treatment Decisions
Jamanetwork.com 353d 10 tweets
This Viewpoint emphasizes the importance of precise language to help patients make evidence-informed decisions in shared decision-making, and argues that references to “chances of harms and benefits” will be more understandable to patients than...
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri "Risk vs benefits" may mislead #patients, emphasizing uncertainty re #harms (framed as 'risks') but implying certainty re "benefits": Again, the persistent ?: was #informedconsent for an #unlicenseddrug obtained?: #patientsafety 337d
Institutional conflict of interest: attempting to crack the deferiprone mystery
Journal of Medical Ethics 346d 12 tweets
A recent study by Olivieri et al , published in PLOS ONE , reports that between 2009 and 2015 a third of patients with thalassaemia in Canada’s largest hospital were switched from first-line licensed drugs to regimens of deferiprone, an unlicensed...
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri "Risk vs benefits" may mislead #patients, emphasizing uncertainty re #harms (framed as 'risks') but implying certainty re "benefits": Again, the persistent ?: was #informedconsent for an #unlicenseddrug obtained?: #patientsafety 337d
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri #Patientsafety important during #coronavirus when honest answers needed: we are still asking about #informedconsent, #drugtoxicity, #deaths during #unlicensed drug exposure. Gripping read (top 5% research outputs tracked by Altmetric): #ethics #drugsafety 332d
People with 'underlying conditions' are being treated as expendable. But our lives matter | Kathryn Hearn
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The UK government’s treatment of the coronavirus outbreak has in effect written off all of us with health issues, says Guardian journalist Kathryn Hearn
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Yes, lives of those with “underlying conditions” matter, including during #CoronaVirus: #thalassemia #sicklecelldisease 343d
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Gideon Koren who was defended 20 years ago even after sending hate mail exposed by DNA #theconstantgardener finally under scrutiny thanks to 798d
Israel's Maccabi healthcare provider investigates wrongdoing by senior doctor in Canada
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Gideon Koren who was defended 20 years ago even after sending hate mail exposed by DNA #theconstantgardener finally under scrutiny thanks to 798d
Sick Kids orders ‘systematic’ review of Dr. Gideon Koren’s published works | The Star
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Star investigation of hundreds of research papers prompts hospital to conduct sweeping review of Dr. Gideon Koren’s published works
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri Gideon Koren who was defended 20 years ago even after sending hate mail exposed by DNA #theconstantgardener finally under scrutiny thanks to 798d