Success in academic psychiatry is not measured in the improvement of patients' mental health, but rather in quantifiable commercial tender.How many grants one brings to the university, how many publications one churns out each year, and how many corporate and professional advisory boards one serves on–and how much money one…
A report by the Institute of Medicine is sharply critical of FDA’s drug safety monitoring system: "The report’s conclusions are striking and often damning – particularly when discussing the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, known as C.D.E.R."
"This is really an ethical Potemkin village, where a hollow system appears to provide the illusion of integrity, but transgressors never leave."
Pharmaceutical industry corrupt practices are in evidence again, and again, and again.
Stanford University announced that it is adopting a strict conflicts of interest policy.
Evidence of an association between violence and widely prescribed antidepressant drugs is the focus of this Infomail.
The Los Angeles Times has uncovered yet additional evidence of financial misconduct and corrupt practices at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
AIR: America’s Investigative Reports, is a new Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series whose first report, "A Bitter Pill," airs Friday, Sept. 8.
Psychiatry’s most powerful and influential key opinion leaders who belong to the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) have been caught off guard. The ACNP leadership is scrambling to overcome the scorn it has received following public disclosure about multiple breaches of ethics and professional standards of conduct. The College and…
Dr. Robert Wachter, author of The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, provides an incisive blueprint for changing the culture in medicine. His starting point is the unexplained death of children following surgery at Stony Brook University Hospital, L.I.
To gain understanding as to why lethal drugs pass FDA review, read the front page article in The Wall Street Journal (below) describing the transformation of the FDA from watchdog to lapdog.
The pharmaceutical industry seems to be predisposed to corporate crime– much as the Mafia is–it’s their way of doing business.
