Doctors/ Researchers
Psychiatrists On the Take: the Focus of Government Investigations
Two prominent academic-psychiatrists–Jeffrey Bostic MD, director of school psychiatry, Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital, and Charles Nemeroff MD, the former chairman of psychiatry at Emory–are featured in current government investigations.
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US Device Mfg Sues UK Cardiologist for Truth Telling
Since 2006, the results of a multi-site clinical trial (MIST) that tested a surgical device have been at the center of dispute among cardiologists on both sides of the Atlantic.
Read MoreMarcia Angell: Drug Co & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." Marcia Angell, MD
Read MoreGrassley Probes COI at American Psychiatric Association
Sen. Grassley is peeling away psychiatry’s layers of deception about the efficacy and safety of its treatments: "I have come to understand that money from the pharmaceutical industry can shape the practices of nonprofit organizations that purport to be independent in their viewpoints and actions."
Read MoreMedical Prostitution: Doctors On the Take–Minnesota an example, NYT
Minnesota is the first of a handful of states to pass a law requiring drug manufacturers to disclose payments to doctors.
Read MoreCounter-Detailing Anti-drug Reps Coming to Educate Doctors
The question is can these visits overcome industry's propaganda delivered under the guise of continuing medical education (CME) courses which physicians must take?
Read MoreAre Lipid lowering (Statins) Guidelines Evidence-Based? Lancet
The authors argue that recommendations for the expanded use of statins to stave off cardiovascular disease are NOT supported by the evidence.
Read MoreIRB Forum Not Inclined to Discuss the Most Serious Issue of All
Unssuccessful effort to engage debate within the community of the authorized clinical research gatekeepers charged with protecting the safety and welfare of the human subjects of research–i.e., members of institutional review boards (IRBs–REBs in Canada).
Read MorePsychiatry News: High Cost of Nondisclosure
Legislation is needed to ensure that conflicts of interest rules in medicine are enforced. One method for reigning in the abuse is to prohibit government grant awards to any researcher who violates financial conflict of interest rules.
Read MoreConflicts of Interest Hopkins Study: Researchers Don’t Want to Disclose $$
Two surveys confirm medical researchers' resistance to complying with conflict of interest disclosure requirements.
Read MoreMedicine In Conflict:Financial Tentacles in Cardiology_Business Week
Business Week reports: "From 1986 to 2003 the number of nonsurgical cardiac procedures, such as propping open arteries with wire-mesh stents, rose twelve fold, according to the American Heart Association.
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