We’ve recently witnessed something rather remarkable – the Romney video. I’ve sworn off blogging about politics and this is no exception, I have another point in mind. I used up my political blogging libido during the second Bush term. The point I want to make has to do with transparency. I expect that most of […]
This is a follow-up to the UPDATE: at the end of shoveling…: J&J’s Alex Gorsky testify? Much too busy … on the other side of the planet Philadelphia Inquirer By David Sell September 19, 2012 People will just have to understand that Johnson & Johnson chief executive officer Alex Gorsky has places to go. He […]
Pardon my irony, but having this ad plastered with its warning all over the page with Dr. Frances’ article was just too tempting to ignore: The Epidemic Of Military Suicide Psychiatric Times By Allen Frances, MD September 19, 2012 With understandable urgency, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has made suicide one of his top priorities, […]
It’s worth thinking about why the Texas Medical Algorithm Program [TMAP] program doesn’t come up more frequently these days. It was, by any accounting, both the most elaborate and the most devious of the psychotropic pharmaceutical marketing schemes of all. When Risperdal was introduced, it came into a ready made market. The side effects of […]
West Point’s Cadet Honor Code Who is Alex Gorsky? He is a West Point Graduate who finished his Army Service as a Ranger in 1988 and went to work for Janssen. He began as a drug rep, rising up the ladder to President of the Janssen subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson in 15 years. He […]
This article has a side story about the Law Firm and the Governor of Pennsylvania which might be of interest. I clipped it out to focus on Gorsky, but it’s all available on line. And the money end of this article is in the single word here at the end of the article, a link […]
Purusing the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry web site, I clicked on Advocacy and read: AACAP partners with our members in advocacy efforts at the federal and state levels to improve policies and services for children and adolescents with mental illness. We work to educate policymakers and administrators about issues affecting child and […]
I started browsing the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry web site several weeks ago when I was looking at Study 329. I was originally looking for their statements about the 2004 Black Box warning on antidepressants. While I found no policy statements, there were plenty of Press Releases of the AACAP’s opposition and […]
Whistle-blower honored in Texas, fired in Pa. Dealings between public employees and drug firms were similar in both states. Reaction was very different. Philadelphia Inquirer [Philly.com] By David Sell September 16, 2012 In Texas, Allen Jones determined that state employees were getting kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, and his efforts resulted in his being named Whistle-blower […]
Reading a discussion in the recent comments, I ran across a reference I hadn’t seen. It was a report [ACNP Task Force Report on SSRIs and Suicidal Behavior in Youth] published in 2006 – yet another meta-analysis of the Clinical Trials of SSRIs in adolescents, and something of a critique of Hammad’s FDA meta-analysis [PowerPoint]: […]