Fall Fundraiser Begins

Summer is rapidly waning and it's time to begin this site's fall fundraiser. The overall goal is $4,000 from 100 contributors by about September 21. Four contributors have already donated $225 over the last week or so--unsolicited by me I should add--and so that leaves $3,775 from 96 contributors to go. As usual, the PayPal button is on the right or shoot me an email and I'll send you a mailing address if you prefer snail mail.

This site is one the verge of several interesting milestones. Later this month will mark its fourth anniversary, it's on the verge of its 20,000th approved comment, it's nearing its 2,500th post and sometime in October it'll have had its 750,000th visit. All kind of amazing to me. What's more, the recently-launched and very good blog healthlifeandstuff.com listed this blog as one of its top investigative blogs in healthcare.

But what have I done for you all lately? Over the last three months, I've written about the continued controversy around suicide warnings on anti-depressants; the creepy Pristiq TV ad; the death of a 3-year-old allegedly bipolar child in Kansas; an FDA panel's recommendation to approve three antipsychotics for adolescents and teens; health care questions that President Obama needed to address; doctors criticizing long-term anti-depressant use on CNN and Fox News; antipsychotic use exploding in Canadian kids; the controversial case of a young girl allegedly with schizophrenia whose father admitted to hitting and starving the girl; the Boston Globe taking up my challenge to cover Seroquel's street drug life; placebo beating Seroquel in teen bipolar depression; the doubling of anti-depressant use in the US over the last decade; a study showing anti-depressants double suicide risk in young adults; how antipsychotics might be a potential treatment for certain cancers; how many over-diagnosed bipolars actually have depression; and trying to make sense of all the new antipsychotics coming to market. And just moments ago I posted on possible undisclosed conflicts of interest around a researcher who had proclaimed that small child have chronic depression.

If any of that is compelling to you, I'd appreciate your support. Thanks.