by Alison Bass | Oct 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Senate Finance Committee’s probe of physicians with extensive financial conflicts is gathering steam: first, Stanford University removed its psychiatry chief Alan Schatzberg as principal investigator of a federally funded study after Congressional investigators...
by Alison Bass | Oct 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
The academic kingpins who made so money at the trough of Big Pharma are starting to fall. This weekend, Charles Nemeroff stepped down from his post as chairman of Emory’s Department of Psychiatry pending an investigation into allegations that he failed to fully...
by Alison Bass | Sep 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
When I was a reporter for The Boston Globe in the 90s, an employee of Brown University’s department of psychiatry handed me a raft of internal university documents. A number of these documents pertained to an ongoing clinical trial that compared the...
by Alison Bass | Sep 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
In June when the news broke that U.S. Senator Charles Grassley was probing the financial ties between Martin Keller, the chief of psychiatry at Brown University, and the drug industry, Brown officials tried to stonewall the entire issue. They refused to acknowledge...
by Alison Bass | Sep 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have to say I’m disappointed with the cover story on bipolar children in Sunday’s New York Times magazine. The author, Jennifer Egan, raises the interesting question about why there has been such a sharp increase in the diagnosis of childhood bipolar...
by Alison Bass | Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Judging by its response to the Senate Finance Committee, the leadership of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) still doesn’t seem to get it. For the past several months, the Finance Committee has been investigating conflicts of interest between academic...
