Doctors/ Researchers
Where Can One Find an Honest, Forthright Psychiatrist?
Following our March 15 Infomail/ post, "Inside Psychiatry’s Battle to Define Mental Illness," we received an e-mail from Dr. Allen Frances, objecting–in essence retracting his statements in an article in WIRED magazine by Gary Greenverg. Our response to Dr. Frances follows his communication.
Read MoreCommercially-Driven Medicine: Implant Device Sales Tactics
Medicine has been derailed from its Hippocratic tradition, science has been utterly corrupted by commercial interests, and doctors are disregarding patients’ interests. Patients are losing ground, no longer do they have a choice about the medical treatments that they get, or finding an ethical doctor whose recommendations are not tainted by his /her competing financial…
Read MoreCNN: Are Americans Overmedicated?
Introducing John Abrams, MD, author of Overdosed America.
Read MoreUS Inspector General Report: Antipsychotic Drug Hazards
An audit by Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of DHHS, confirms what has already been documented: that antipsychotics are widely misprescribed for unapproved uses and taxpayers are saddled with the high cost through Medicaid and Medicare.
Read MoreIndian Tribe Wins Limit onIts DNA Research
"Did you have permission to use Havasupai blood for your research?" At the heart of this case is a conflict of interests between scientists at powerful institutions that stand to profit from DNA research and powerless members of an underclass.
Read MoreIn Medicine, the Power of No vs. Psychiatry’s Mass Overtreatment
Unlike patients in other fields of medicine, those who are designated mentally ill–or even declared to be "at risk" for mental illness in the future–are at once stigmatized and suffer losss of their autonomy.
Flu Vaccine Fraud: WHO ‘Mr Flu’ Under Investigation For Gross Conflicts of Interest
One after another of the recently proclaimed Flu “pandemics” has turned out to be a fraudulent marketing hoax to promote flu vaccines.
Read MorePsychiatrist Steps to the Plate
Motherhood is NOT a Medical Disorder Stop: Mother’s Act
Read MoreUSA Today: Conflicts of interest bedevil psychiatric drug research
Psychiatry’s leadership is scrambling and fumbling in its effort to explain why it’s collusion with industry for pay is okay.
Read MoreInstitute of Medicine Calls for Doctors to Stop Taking Gifts From Drug Makers
Harvard-Partners Hospitals Curtail Industry-Doctor $$ Perks
Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Mass. General Hospital: "We don’t want our faculty being on the road as hired guns."
Read MoreMass. Bans Pharma Gifts to Doctors
But, funding for research aimed at answering a scientific question will still not have to be disclosed…
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