by Alison Bass | Dec 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
Three days before Christmas, Emory University gave its long-time chief of psychiatry a nice holiday gift: in return for his stepping down as psychiatry head, university officials are allowing Charles Nemeroff to stay at the university as a full professor despite his...
by Alison Bass | Dec 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to see that The New York Times has discovered the problem of ghostwriting — wherein drug companies pay shills to write medical journal articles and then go hunting for respected doctors to put their names on already prepared articles. And I...
by Alison Bass | Dec 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Kudos to The Boston Globe for revealing a big loophole in Massachusetts’ new disclosure rules for health professionals: doctors who receive lucrative consulting and research funding from drug companies do not need to disclose these payments under the proposed...
by Alison Bass | Dec 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
In its landmark lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline, the New York State Attorney General accused the pharmaceutical giant of consumer fraud for not publishing negative findings about its antidepressant, Paxil, in essence, for not giving doctors and consumers the full...
by Alison Bass | Nov 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
If I were the parent of a child diagnosed with bipolar disorder by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and prescribed anti-psychotic drugs with serious side effects, how would I feel upon learning that the head honcho of MGH’s child psychiatry department...
