by Alison Bass | Jun 8, 2011 | antidepressants, conflicts of interest, expert testimony, medical devices, National Institutes of Health
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 highlighted Mayberg’s lucrative and lethal (she...
by Alison Bass | May 13, 2011 | antidepressants, ghostwriting, pharmaceutical industry
In his latest blog, Paul Thacker, an investigator for the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and former aide to Senator Charles Grassley, struggles to understand how Dr. Stan Kutcher, a psychiatrist turned politician in Canada, could possibly say that Paxil study...