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May 2016: The State of Psychiatry — Child Psychiatrists at APA Meeting 

July 10, 2016 |

Child psychiatrists at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Atlanta, in May 2016, called for “big solutions to improving child mental health care,” recommending an aggressive drug algorithm approach for children. (Psychiatric News, June 16, 2016) This is a . . . Continue reading →

2001 Uninformed Consent; Healthy Volunteers Die

August 1, 2015 |

National Bioethics Advisory Committee Report: Ethical & Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants. The shift from “human subject” as defined by the Nuremberg Code to “participant” obscures the role & function of human subjects in medical experiments. Continue reading →