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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: June 2011
Everything you wanted to know about ghostwriting but were afraid to ask…
Share Two quick notes: the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has posted a helpful FAQ on corporate-funded medical ghostwriting. As POGO investigator Paul Thacker writes: “We hope this [FAQ] will answer any questions you might have on this very disturbing … Continue reading
The real reason biotech industry opposes Medicare advisory panel
Share A page-one story in The Boston Globe today spotlights the Massachusetts biotech industry’s effort to block a key piece of President Obama’s health care overhaul: the creation of an independent payment advisory board (IPAB) that would make recommendations on … Continue reading
New Pfizer deal with Boston-area medical schools dissected on WGBH-TV
Share I was planning to blog about Pfizer’s new $100 million partnership with several Boston-area medical centers and its potential downsides. But before I could get around to doing that, I was invited to talk about the deal on WGBH-TV’s … Continue reading
Is the credibility of Emory neurologist Helen Mayberg in question? You judge
Share A few weeks ago, I blogged about the strange case of Dr. Helen Mayberg, a neurologist at Emory University who has testified in more death penalty cases in recent years than almost any other doctor in the country. I … Continue reading