Debate: PhRMA and its relations with Gov, Academia, Doctors and Consumers_Oct 4-5
Two especially timely conferences focus on MEDICINE AND THE LAW:
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Pediatric Cardiologist Explains: The crucial health stat you’ve never heard of_Slate
Dr. Sanghavi provides us with a statistical reality-check by which to gauge for ourselves whether or not we should–or need not–take a octor’s advice about starting a medical treatment for a speculated risk–rather than evidence of illness.
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2 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…
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NIH 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."
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Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law_PLoS
Evidence of an association between violence and widely prescribed antidepressant drugs is the focus of this Infomail.
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NIH Calls it “Serious Miscondcut” Yet Agency Takes No Disciplinary actions_LA Times
The Los Angeles Times has uncovered yet additional evidence of financial misconduct and corrupt practices at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Psychiatry’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…
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Schering-Plough Pleaded Guilty to Conspiracy Fined $435 Million for Promoting Off-Label Use
The pharmaceutical industry seems to be predisposed to corporate crime– much as the Mafia is–it’s their way of doing business.
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Marketing Suicide by Misapplying Population Trends_No Competing Interests?
Suicide rates fluctuate. Like the stock market their rise and fall is not due to a single decisive cause, but rather to a confluence of complex factors.
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More Drugs Slapped with Lawsuits_Science Misconduct Blog
USA Today reports that last year the pharmaceutical industry "faced the most product liability lawsuits of any other industry."
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NYT Editorial: Safe Drug Testing in Prisons?
An editorial in today's New York Times is a follow-up to its riveting report by Ian Urbina on the recommendation by an Institute of Medicine panel to
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Congress to Probe NIH Conflict of Interest Policies
Congressional leaders have lost patience with the cat and mouse game being played by officials of the National Institutes of Health.