by Alison Bass | Jun 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) recently released records showing that a prominent psychiatrist whose work led to an exponential increase in the diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder earned at least $1.6 million from the makers of drugs used to treat this very...
by Alison Bass | Jun 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Boston Globe yesterday published my op-ed piece here about the extent to which drug companies run misleading ads and use rebates to essentially bribe doctors to prescribe their drugs. I received some interesting feedback, including an email from a lawyer who noted...
by Alison Bass | May 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Ever wonder why there are so many drug commercials on television these days? Because they work, despite the required litany of side effects in each ad. And now we know why these ads are so successful: new research indicates that viewers don’t really absorb the...
by Alison Bass | Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
An article in The New York Times a few days ago about Vioxx almost makes it sound as if the ghostwriting of new drug studies by pharmaceutical companies is a new and relatively unknown practice. In fact, the ghost-writing of research by pharmaceutical companies eager...
