August 9, 2010 Anesthesiologist who Committed Major Fraud Claims Bipolar DefenseIn 2009, Anesthesiology News reported that a routine audit at Baystate Medical Center (in 2008) uncovered "one Read More Anesthesiologist who Committed Major Fraud Claims Bipolar Defense
July 15, 2010 Will Another Blockbuster Drug Hit the Dust?In 2007, an FDA advisory panel voted 22 to 1 to keep GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug, Avandia (Rosiglitazone) Read More Will Another Blockbuster Drug Hit the Dust?
June 21, 2010 NIH Needs Sunshine Law EnforcementCORRECTED/ REVISED This is a follow-up to our Infomail about the revelations in an investigative report by Read More NIH Needs Sunshine Law Enforcement
June 17, 2010 NIH Reform Compromised By Chief NIMH PsychiatristAn investigative report by The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 6, 2010) provided details about the surrreptitious Read More NIH Reform Compromised By Chief NIMH Psychiatrist
June 14, 2010 New Theory of Alzheimer’s Explains Drug FailuresThe Wall Street Journal reports (below) that: “A group of major pharmaceutical companies will share pooled data Read More New Theory of Alzheimer’s Explains Drug Failures
June 8, 2010 “Unhinged: the Trouble with Psychiatry”"Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry–A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis," is an important book, although Read More “Unhinged: the Trouble with Psychiatry”
February 11, 2010 Eli Lilly Exec Heads to Harvard Medical SchoolLest anyone had illusions about the nature of a new policy (still under development) that is to Read More Eli Lilly Exec Heads to Harvard Medical School
January 7, 2010 JAMA Antidepressant Meta-analysis Reveals 22 Years of DeceptionTwenty-two years after the US marketing of Prozac, which changed the marketing, prescribing and widespread consumption of Read More JAMA Antidepressant Meta-analysis Reveals 22 Years of Deception
November 27, 2009 Psychosurgery Promoted by NYT: Here We Go, AgainTrue to an ignoble tradition of lending its "authoritative" front page to promote psychiatry’s most radical experimental Read More Psychosurgery Promoted by NYT: Here We Go, Again
September 21, 2009 84% Americans Blame Big Pharma for Healthcare messA Harris Poll held in August found that 84% of Americans have wised up to the pharmaceutical Read More 84% Americans Blame Big Pharma for Healthcare mess
July 17, 2009 Is the Schizophrenia Mortality Study in The Lancet CREDIBLE?A study purporting to analyze mortality rates of 66, 881 schizophrenia patients in Finland (1973 to 2005) Read More Is the Schizophrenia Mortality Study in The Lancet CREDIBLE?
July 14, 2009 World Conference Science JournalistsI have just returned from a trip to London at the invitation of the World Conference of Read More World Conference Science Journalists
June 18, 2009 Gene Theory for Depression Is Now DiscreditedA study that attempted to replicate the “seminal” study that laid the foundation for psychiatry’s “serotonin theory” Read More Gene Theory for Depression Is Now Discredited
May 12, 2009 Systematic Review: Faulty Clinical Trial Analyses Favor new toxic drugs"Have last-observation-carried-forward analyses caused us to favour more toxic dementia therapies over less toxic alternatives? " is Read More Systematic Review: Faulty Clinical Trial Analyses Favor new toxic drugs