Subject: Ely Lilly's shenanigans in the New York Times
Date: Mar 14, 2008 8:20 PM
TIMES ARTICLE BELOW
The drug reps do this all the time (state falsely that one psych drug
can be used
for any "condition"- all arbitrary anyway, as is seen in the email by
Ely Lilly, below, itself), and besides, DMHAS's Kenneth Marcus said
under oath
that psychiatrists can do whatever they want and don't have to follow
anyone's
guidelines. I remind that the guidelines say not to treat a delirium
with CNS depressants
since that could exacerbate the brain damage from the delirium:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_MARCUS_PERJURY.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLI11.jpg
Say the APA's guidelines, "the delirium should be treated first."
I suffered this extra brain damage myself, as was seen by everyone who
attended
the Jan 31, 2001 FDA meeting on LYMErix, where I explained to the FDA
committee
that LYMErix was a fraud because no one agreed with Steere's IgG idea
at Dearborn:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DICKSON_FDA_SUBMISSION_FULL.htm
I realize that to Yale, the brain is "a complicating variable which
should
be thrown out"
http://www.actionlyme.org/PENIS_MATTERS_101.htm
and everything and apparently it is okay for the State of Corrupticut
to throw mine
out, despite LYMErix not being a vaccine and I am the only person, not
to mention
chemist or MD to have put any time into finding out why LYMErix
produced a syndrome
like Lyme- because it not only is a toxin, but suppresses the immune
system:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOWEAPONEERS_CORIXA_YALE_TLRS.htm
rendering everything I say, TRUE.
I realize truth does not matter to a Tard nation.
http://www.actionlyme.org/JAMES_PHILLIPS_HOMEPAGE.htm
You can't make up THAT many positive tests, and if anyone can tell me
how I
faked positive Lyme Brain scans, please let me know, since I have
other victims
on my "list" besides myself, for whom a dose of my famous telekinetic
tricks is in store:
http://www.actionlyme.org/070430hometemp.htm
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/business/14cnd-drug.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
Lilly E-Mail Discussed Off-Label Drug Use
By ALEX BERENSON
ANCHORAGE -- John C. Lechleiter, an Eli Lilly official who is about to
become the
company's top executive, wrote e-mail in 2003 that appears to have
encouraged Lilly
to promote its schizophrenia medicine Zyprexa for a use not approved
by federal
drug regulators.
Dr. Lechleiter's comments came in a March 2003 e-mail message he wrote
to other
Lilly executives, after he traveled to Cincinnati to watch Lilly sales
representatives
talk to doctors.
The e-mail message was discussed earlier this week in an Anchorage
courtroom in
a lawsuit against Lilly by the state of Alaska. The suit seeks
reimbursement for
the medical costs of Medicaid patients who developed diabetes while
taking Zyprexa.
The drug causes severe weight gain and cholesterol problems in many
patients and
has been linked to diabetes.
Zyprexa is federally approved only for use by adults diagnosed with
schizophrenia
or bipolar disorder. While doctors are free to prescribe it "off
label" for any
patients for any use, it would be a violation of federal law for Lilly
to actively
encourage off-label use of the drug. In his e-mail message, Dr.
Lechleiter discusses
the use of Zyprexa by children and teenagers.
In the message, Dr. Lechleiter, who was then the company's executive
vice president
for pharmaceutical products, noted to other Lilly officials that
company representatives
were already promoting Strattera, a second Lilly psychiatric drug, to
pediatricians
and child psychiatrists. The representatives could also discuss
Zyprexa with such
doctors, he said.
"The fact we are now talking to child psychs and peds and others about
Strattera
means that we must seize the opportunity to expand our work with
Zyprexa in this
same child-adolescent population," Dr. Lechleiter wrote in the
message. He also
encouraged Lilly to get data on the use of Zyprexa in treating
"disruptive kids"
in order to increase the drug's sales.
A spokeswoman for Eli Lilly said Dr. Lechleiter, an organic chemist,
was not advocating
off-label promotion in his note but simply wanted the company to
respond to physicians'
requests for information. The company declined to make Dr. Lechleiter
available
for comment.
Because of Zyprexa's physical side effects, many psychiatrists now say
it is appropriate
only for severely mentally ill patients. Clinical trials have shown
that its tendency
to cause dangerous weight gain appears to be especially severe in
younger patients.
The Food and Drug Administration has for more than a year declined to
act upon an
application by Lilly to broaden the drug's label to allow its use in
people under
18.
Dr. Lechleiter's e-mail message has not previously been discussed
publicly. In the
Alaska trial, after plaintiff lawyers presented it without the jury
present, Judge
Mark Rindner, said it could not be admitted into evidence in the trial
because off-label
use was not at issue in the case.
Its disclosure nonetheless comes at a sensitive moment for Lilly,
which is also
under federal criminal investigation for the way it promoted Zyprexa
and played
down the drug's risks to doctors. Between 2000 and 2002, internal
Lilly documents
show that the company aggressively tried to expand Zyprexa's sales
into markets
for which the drug was never approved, including elderly patients with
dementia.
To settle that investigation, and related investigations by several
states, Lilly
is negotiating with federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania on a deal that
could result
in the company's paying $1 billion to $2 billion in fines and
restitution, according
to people involved in the investigation. The prosecutors declined to
comment on
Friday.
Because Dr. Lechleiter is a senior official about to become the
company's chief
executive, the public disclosure of e-mail in which he appears to have
encouraged
off-label promotion of Zyprexa could complicate the talks.
On April 1, he is scheduled to become the company's chief executive,
replacing Sidney
Taurel, with the plan to replace Mr. Taurel as Lilly's chairman at the
end of the
year.
Since 2003, as information about the drug's risks has spread,
prescriptions for
Zyprexa have fallen sharply in the United States.
But Lilly has repeatedly increased the drug's price to counteract the
slumping prescriptions,
and Zyprexa remains by far Lilly's best-selling product, with
worldwide sales of
$4.8 billion last year, about half in the United States. Zyprexa now
costs about
$8,000 a year at commonly prescribed doses.
Marni Lemons, a spokesman for Eli Lilly, said Dr. Lechleiter's e-mail
message was
meant to encourage Lilly representatives to answer questions from
doctors who were
already prescribing Zyprexa off-label to children and teenagers.
"Rather than driving physician demand, what he was doing was
responding to demand
from physicians, which we are allowed to do," Ms. Lemons said. Federal
law does
let companies send "medical letters" with additional information about
off-label
uses to physicians who request the information, although sales
representatives are
not supposed to discuss it.
In the e-mail message, Dr. Lechleiter made several other references to
off-label
use of Zyprexa. He wrote, "we are losing scripts to Risperdal for
treatment of disruptive
kids, because Johnson & Johnson has the data and we don't." Risperdal,
made
by Johnson & Johnson, is another drug for schizophrenia and bipolar
disorder.
Unlike Zyprexa, it has been approved for pediatric use.
Dr. Lechleiter also wrote that "Zyprexa is getting traction with some
neurologists
for treatment of pain," another off-label use of Zyprexa, which has
never been approved
for pain relief.
The federal government has investigated drug companies for promoting
their medicines
off-label before, but Dr. Lechleiter's note is rare documentation of a
senior drug
executive's openly discussing the practice.
The Alaska state trial over Zyprexa began March 5 in the Nesbett
Courthouse in downtown
Anchorage and is expected to last until late this month. In its
initial complaint,
the state tried to recover costs associated with Lilly's off-label
promotion of
Zyprexa. But just before the jury was chosen, Judge Rindner dismissed
that claim.
As a result, jurors have not been permitted to hear any evidence
relating to off-label
promotion in the case. But lawyers for the state tried on Tuesday to
introduce the
e-mail message into evidence anyway. Although the judge ruled against
them, the
message became part of the court record.
----- Original Message ----
From: MoJo Bot <mojo...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:59:51 AM
Subject: James Phillips' malpractice, perjury, and the Corrupt CT
Medical Board.
I'll just keep reporting this until everyone sane in Corrupticut
leaves because
of the danger presented by Yale and Jodi Rell.
Wait until you see what was said at the Corrupt Judges Approval and
Advancement
Hearings (at the bottom of the page, as a matter of public record):
REP HOVEY: "And, from my perspective, we've appointed and appraised
judges
who have had significant issues with demeanor..."
http://www.actionlyme.org/JAMES_PHILLIPS_MALPRACTICE_BRAIN_DAMAGE.jpg
http://www.actionlyme.org/JAMES_PHILLIPS_MALPRACTICE_BRAIN_DAMAGE%20001.jpg
http://www.actionlyme.org/JAMES_PHILLIPS_MALPRACTICE.htm
This is the key to malpractice lawsuits all across the country, if
people could
understand exactly what this pervert did:
http://www.actionlyme.org/COWARDLY_PSYCHIATRIC_WUSS_TEAM.htm
There is AAPP's Michael Schwartz talking about his abuse by Allen
Steere.
Neither of them, James Phillips or Michael Schwartz did anything to
help Lyme victims,
but instead abused them all further, as a result of Michael Schwartz
being abused
by Allen Steere (treated like a lab animal).
I would like to know what the head of the NIH, Elias Zerhouni, copied
in here, thinks
of James Phillips and all these medical records scanned in (I have
more, but the
well-known damage from childhood immunizations records will be scanned
in first,
since I have data from Pfizer on this which has to be scanned in
methodically and
in a way that will be understood by the average american moron):
http://www.actionlyme.org/JAMES_PHILLIPS_HOMEPAGE.htm
Positive EMGs, positive blood tests for Lyme and Ehrlichiosis on my
kids, correspondence
with the CDC about Lyme and pregnancy before I ever got pregnant,
positive tests
for activated viruses of all kinds (since that's what the immune
suppression
from chronic Lyme does)...
And here is the Medical Board's response to my complaint against James
Phillips:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CT_MED_BOARD_BLOW_OFF.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/DIANE_EHRLICHIOSIS.htm
Yale MDs can malpractice treat for Lyme or anything else they choose.
Yale may brain damage individuals and perjure themselves abvout what
any medical
associations guidelines are:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_MARCUS_PERJURY.htm
Any doc in Corrupticut may say anything they want under oath, and any
person from
any agency or department in the State of Connecticut is free to
perjure themselves
and no one is allowed recourse through either the Statewide Bar
Counsel, the Commission
on Human Rights, or the Judicial Review Board. All have said that they
will not
investigate any crimes against CT residents by anyone.
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
That means anyone can commit any kind of crime they want against
anyone else, and
there will not ever be any kind of justice. The Judiciary Committee
PROMOTED Judge
Howard Scheinblum after Scheinblum played a violin in court, called a
defendant
"El Stupido" and denied him a public defender.
Here is what was said on the record before the tape was turned off:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRIMINAL_JUSTICE_FARCE_HEARING_25_March_06.htm
REP. LAWLOR: Thank you, Mr. Del Vecchio. Are there any questions? If
not, thanks
for coming in. It's good to get the input of someone who has had
firsthand experience
as well.
There you go. If there's no other persons in testifying today, we'll
call
this public hearing to a, oh, I'm sorry, Representative Hovey.
REP. HOVEY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Before you, I'm not sure what the
protocol
is, do you want to close the public hearing? I have a comment I want
to make.
REP. LAWLOR: Oh, sure, I can close the public hearing. No problem,
it's okay.
REP. HOVEY: Okay, I just wanted to say that I respect the,
respectfully object to
the delay in the votes on these judges because it's my understanding
that the
delay is due to one of the nominees specifically.
And, from my perspective, we've appointed and appraised judges who
have had
significant issues with demeanor.
They're arrogant, pretentious and even dishonest, and that we have
recently
approved a judge who knowingly put children back into harm's way
instead of
using their judicial latitude to protect these children.
And the particular individual that we had earlier today, I believe the
terms willful
neglect and this or that about their circumstance, personal
circumstance.
And what I would say is, someone who sits on this Committee with a--
[Whereupon, the hearing was adjourned.]====
Look at all the medical records scanned in here, including all the
brain scans and
blood tests and activated viruses of all kinds, and as regarding my
children who
have congenital Lyme Disease and Congenital Ehrlichiosis. These
records were given
to James Phillips in the summer of 2000, and three and a half years
later, after
causing me such obvious brain damage that the entire FDA vaccine
committee saw it
(when I explained to the FDA that LYMErix was not a vaccine), but
Karen Forschner
of the Lyme Disease Foundation was the only one to stand up, step
forward and admit
it.
James Phillips, 88 Noble Avenue, Milford, CT, did not want to be sued
for malpractice,
so he perjured himself and ruined my kids, permanently. They have
been given to
the maniac Donald Dickson, and one of my kids, Diane, is not even
going to school
at all since she is so afraid if being kidnapped again by DCF from the
schools.
http://www.actionlyme.org/THE_REAL_DONALD_DICKSON.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/SOCIOPATHY_11.htm
Donald Dickson the baby thrower, diagnosed as a sociopath,
So, everyone should leave Corrupticut as soon as possible, since you
can't retro-invent
so many records and neither could I have invented the Corrupticourts
transcripts,
nor the story of how even the cops, at their worst (and they are the
worst) think
to falsely call DCF on people in order to torture them and they get
away with it,
like all their other crimes, and substantiating my point:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/dbb0385b802aff17/547db6cb109659d6?hl=en#547db6cb109659d6
No one is safe here in Corrupticut, and the worst criminals work for
the State.
There is no denying it now, given how many extra people James Phillips
ruined, and
he is a "forensic psychiatrist for the State of Corrupticut."
In other words, this obvious malpractioner and perjurer is hired
regularly by the
State to produce the required perjury.
Kathleen M. Dickson