Doctors/ Researchers
Debate: PhRMA and its relations with Gov, Academia, Doctors and Consumers_Oct 4-5
Two especially timely conferences focus on MEDICINE AND THE LAW:
Read More2 letters Re: Dr. Nemeroff Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest_WSJ
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 makes. The integrity of the…
Read MoreNIH A House of Ill Repute–Scientists for Sale While on Gov Payroll
"This is really an ethical Potemkin village, where a hollow system appears to provide the illusion of integrity, but transgressors never leave."
Read MorePsychiatry’s Most Powerful Association Feeling the Heat_SCIENCE
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 its journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, have become…
Read MoreAlleged ethical / financial breaches by UCI Psychiatrist drew scrutiny but no sanctions_LAT
Steven Potkin, who, LAT reports, is a brother-in-law of Jane Pauley who wrapped up her career as TV news anchor to become a paid drug pusher.
Read MoreCyberonics Press Release July 7,2006
New Peer-Reviewed Publication Authored By Leading Scientists Provides Comprehensive Review of VNS Therapy Mechanism of Action in Treatment-Resistant Depression
Read MoreHarvard / Stanford–Psychiatrists’ Financial Ties to Industry
Two probing first rate investigative reports document how psychiatry’s treatments are shaped by "opinion leaders" whose professional recommendations are compromised by their substantial, largely undisclosed, financial ties to drug companies.
Read MoreConflicts of Interest: Stanford University
An investigative report in Mercury News (below) focuses on Stanford University department heads, associate deans and other leaders because “these are senior people who set the tone at the medical school and are role models for junior faculty members.”
Read More“Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?”
A provocative article by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff and Dr. David Cohen, PLOS Medicine, June 5.
Read MoreTrial Analyst Finds Embarassing Inconsistencies in NIMH Flawed Safety Study
GSK’s acknowledgement refutes the recent claims made in the official organ of the American Psychiatric Association, The American Journal of Psychiatry.
Read MoreCardiologists Revolut RE: Industtry’s Role in Expanding Definition of Hypertension_NYT
A front page article in The New York Times gives a ray of hope about reclaiming medicine from the clutches of industry and its single-minded profit-driven goals:
Read MoreList: APA-DSM-IV_ DSM-IV- TR TASK FORCE
APA "Diagnostic Statistical Manual" Task Force has been shown to have financial relationships with drug manufacturers.
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