Asma Khalid

Gosh, Noel, this sounds really, really awful. And it sounds like she also doesn't know why these things are happening to her. Were the behavior changes that Charlene exhibited largely sexual behavior changes? Did she...

and just kind of bottomed out. Gosh. It seems like she did not understand the risks of the medication she was taking. And my understanding from your reporting is that it seems like the awareness of these drugs is not as high as it could be. So what's the history of this? Where does this all begin?

So to be clear, when the medications first were put on the market, no one it sounds was talking about these side effects. You didn't hear this from doctors, you didn't hear this from researchers? Well, exactly. These hadn't appeared to any great degree as far as we understand in clinical trials. So you've got a situation where patients aren't aware.

Ymmärrän. Olet käsitellyt aikavälin, jossa nämä drogit alkoivat olemaan popularisoituja 1990-luvulla. Lopulta 2000-luvun aikana ei ollut edelleen edellistä raporttia sääntöjärjestelmistä. Ei ollut varoja, jotka olivat antaneet tilaisuuteen.

Mutta näyttää, että on jonkinlainen anekdoottinen evidenssi, että nämä drogit eivät ole turvallisia kaikille. Joten kun ovat nämä yllättäjät, tämä anekdoottinen evidenssi, kun se oikein alkaa alkaa olemaan oikein tutkittu?

Researcher detect that these side effects are indeed fairly common. Once that is proven, why do the drugs stay on the market? I mean, presumably I understand that they are helping patients, but there has got to be some sort of tension looking at the pros and cons in that dynamic.

It's hard to compute why if the research was done, you're saying in the early 2000s, why someone like Charlene in the year 2016 was not aware of the risks of the medication she was on, unless that information was not being fully disclosed, right? You say that the risks were known, that they were beginning to be printed on leaflets. How do people continue then to take the drug and not know the side effects?

Particularly when you talk about sexual behavior changes, some folks might be wondering, well, hey, is this just not on me? People do change their sexual behaviors over their life, and is that just not a part of it? Do they wonder, and do they struggle with how much agency they had?

Sanoit, että lääkärit laittavat huomioita lääkäriin. Onko sinun mielestäsi, että on enemmän, joka voi tehdä, jotta nämä lääkärit saadaan turvallisemmin?

Noel, sinä aloitit tutkimaan näitä tapauksia enemmän kuin vuoden aiemmin. Ja kuten sanotaan, sinä olet puhunut montien ihmisten kanssa, montien tapauksien kanssa. Ihmiset ovat edelleen tutustumassa sinuun. Haluan vain kysyä, Noel, mitä olet oppinut? No, se on ollut yllättävän kokemus. Nämä ovat todella vaikeita tarinoita kuulla. Mutta on myös jotain todella järkevää. Kun me publikoimme yhden näiden tarinoiden, me olemme järjestäneet ihmisiä tutustumassa.

Se oli Noel Titheridge, BBC-kysymyksen järjestäjä. Ja Noelin järjestäjien vastauksessa Yhdysvallan saavutusjärjestäjä sanoi, että hän aloittaa tutkimuksen sääntöjä muutaman dopamina-agonistin medikaatioista.

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