by Alison Bass | Dec 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
A few weeks before Thanksgiving, my husband, a hospice social worker, was told that his hours were being cut back from full to part-time. The explanation given to him, a six-year employee with solid performance reviews, was that the hospice’s census had declined...
by Alison Bass | Dec 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
I almost choked over my tea this morning when reading this The New York Times story, the gist of which was that French regulations governing conflicts of interest in medicine are considerably more lax than our own. If only that were true. The NYT article described how...
by Alison Bass | Nov 17, 2011 | biotech industry, clinical trials, conflicts of interest, patient care, pharmaceutical industry, Uncategorized, university industry collaboration
We’ve all signed those vague privacy statements when visiting our local hospital for medical care. But how many of us have actually read the fine print and understand that the most sensitive details of our medical lives may be shared with drug companies for...
by Alison Bass | Nov 2, 2011 | antipsychotic drugs, conflicts of interest, drug marketing, ghostwriting, patient care, pharmaceutical industry, scientific misconduct, Uncategorized
On November 28, the Texas Attorney General is expected to begin a landmark trial against Johnson & Johnson on charges that the pharmaceutical giant “subverted scientific integrity” by paying off academic psychiatrists and state officials to boost the...
by Alison Bass | Jun 14, 2011 | pharmaceutical industry, Uncategorized, university industry collaboration
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 Greater Boston show...
by Alison Bass | May 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Stan Kutcher, the psychiatrist turned politician who threatened to sue The Coast newspaper in Halifax unless it issued a retraction on a story it did about Kutcher’s involvement with Paxil study 329 (see retracted story here) and my blog about it), lost...
