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About Me
Alison Bass is a Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, which won the NASW Science in Society Award. She was a longtime medical and science writer for The Boston Globe and has also written for The Miami Herald, Psychology Today and MIT's Technology Review, among other publications. A series she wrote for The Boston Globe on psychiatry was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and she has received many other journalism awards. In 2007, she won a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship to write Side Effects. Bass teaches journalism at Mount Holyoke College and Brandeis University.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Conflicts galore among critics of new mammography guidelines
Share This Wednesday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hearing on the new breast cancer screening recommendations, in response no doubt to the storm of criticism that greeted the recent guidelines issued by the US Preventative … Continue reading
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New study finds link between TV ads and higher drug prices
Share We’ve got family coming in for Thanksgiving and I have much to do. So this week, I’d just like to point my faithful readers to three items of interest: 1. Gary Schwitzer’s great blog, which goes a long way … Continue reading
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A solution to the problem of scientific misconduct?
Share Talk about synergy. Just a few days ago, my health and science journalism class at Brandeis was discussing ethics in science, using as a template an old case example involving scientific fraud in the University of Michigan laboratory then … Continue reading
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Was the Fort Hood shooter taking antidepressants?
Share In the days since the Fort Hood shooting, I have wondered whether the gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was taking antidepressants in the weeks or months before he sprayed a medical clinic with bullets, killing 13 people. I hesitated … Continue reading
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Amgen and Aranesp: One more example of how drug companies make huge profits by misleading consumers
Share Just in case you didn’t read the Saturday papers, let me call your attention to this article in The Boston Globe about the chickens coming home to roost for Amgen, the California biotech that makes Aranesp, an anti-anemia drug … Continue reading
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