In the early days of computing, I lived on the leading edge of hardware and software. The advances were just such exciting stuff. But over the ensuing decades, that has reversed. I actively ride the trailing edge – still use Windows XP and early Linux. I groan when I am forced to update something. So […]
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More Graduates Choose Psychiatry in 2013 Match Psychiatric News by Mark Moran April 19, 2013 A new “all in“ policy for this year’s match, along with an increase in the number of medical students, contributes to the increase in graduates choosing psychiatry. A total of 681 U.S. medical student seniors “matched” into psychiatry residencies in […]
UK Charges Glaxo With ‘Market Abuse’ For Pay-To-Delay Deals Pharmalot by Ed Silverman 04/22/2013 In the latest instance in which drugmakers have been accused of reaching?’pay to delay’ deals that harm consumers, the UK Office of Fair Trading late last week charged that GlaxoSmithKline colluded with three generic drugmakers to forestall the introduction of low-cost […]
This has been a rotten story. When I first encountered the Clinical Research Industry, I thought it sounded shady, primarily because of its big push for "Globalization." It smelled like exploitation: the clinical research industry: time-to-market and beyond… the clinical research industry: the cro running in the background… the clinical research industry: cross purposes… […]
Last week, we watched in awe as the authorities were able to mobilize technology to solve a pretty sticky problem – finding the Boston bombers. By the third day, there was enough mass video assembled to identify them on national media [upper right]. I was personally impressed by that top shot from an iPhone [suspect […]
Cochrane signs up to AllTrials initiative to campaign for registration and reporting of all clinical trials Cochrane Collaboration Press Release April 19 , 2013 The Cochrane Collaboration, the international not-for-profit organization that produces systematic reviews of healthcare evidence and the largest database of randomized controlled trials, published online in The Cochrane Library, has today formalized […]
Psychiatry and the Myth of “Medicalization” Psychiatric Times By Ronald W. Pies, MD April 18, 2013 Whatever happened to common sense? You know what I mean—these psychiatrists medicalize every ordinary feeling and behavior, every normal stress and strain of living. Why, the way they want to call ordinary shyness “Social Anxiety Disorder,” or ordinary grief […]
Among the misadventures of alliances between the pharmaceutical industry and academic psychiatry, the saga of Dr. Biederman’s group at Harvard and their Pediatric Bipolar Disorder craze is in the running as the paradigm of the genre. I recently looked back on it [the sound and the fury…] when I ran across some latter day ripples […]
"The new framework will not replace the DSM, which is too important to discard…" Only Rip Van Winkle would not to know that academic psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association [APA], and the National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH] have been united in their assumption that mental illness is a manifestation of brain disease since the […]