The Cochrane Systematic Reviews were new to me, though they’ve been around for twenty years. The group is made up of a network of thousands of independent scientists who donate their time to do in-depth and comprehensive reviews of clinical trials using structured meta-analytic techniques – many of which have been developed by the Collaboration […]
In the Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones reminds of those recurrent seasons that help us mark the passage of time. For him it was baseball season. For many, it’s Christmas, or hunting season, or even Spring. Something that just shows up year after year – the rhythm of life. Then again, for some of […]
Something really huge just happened. Something that just might change medical science altogether. In medical school, we read some of the best mysteries you can imagine. Things like the story of Typhoid Mary and how they tracked her down. But this is one with a twist, and it happened just this week. It’s about Tamiflu, […]
The post made in america… was about Peter Parry’s paper, Biologism in Psychiatry: A Young Man’s Experience of Being Diagnosed with “Pediatric Bipolar Disorder”. It’s a case study written as an interview of the patient himself about his lost adolescence as a Bipolar Child patient, with Peter’s thoughtful analysis of the case and the whole […]
There is a SAMHSA [Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration] Report now available for free download on-line [National Expenditures for Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse Treatment, 1986-2009] that is, in my opinion, a must-read for interested parties. That said, I hasten to add that it’s hard, because it’s written for policy wonks, and […]
A message from Carl Elliott: In early December, we delivered a petition signed by over 3,500 of you to Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, calling for an investigation of the death of Dan Markingson in a University of Minnesota psychiatric research study. That same week, the Faculty Senate at the university also overwhelmingly approved a resolution […]
While I have no business in the details of legal matters, I was really glad to read this article. It’s part of the fallout from the TMAP scam that has been dragging on now for ten long years: Arkansas AG asks state Supreme Court to reconsider its tossing of $1.2B Johnson & Johnson fine The […]
If Glaxo’s CEO wants to be Mr. Clean, he needs to pick up a broom Fierce PharmaMarketing By Tracy Staton April 7, 2014 GlaxoSmithKline [$GSK] says it’s rolling out sales and marketing reforms around the world. Apparently, the changes come none too soon. The British drugmaker opened another bribery investigation, this time in Iraq, to […]
Biologism in Psychiatry: A Young Man’s Experience of Being Diagnosed with “Pediatric Bipolar Disorder” by Peter Parry Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2014 3:334-347. [full text online] Pediatric bipolar disorder is a diagnosis that arose in the mid 1990s in the USA and has mostly remained confined to that nation. In this article a young American […]
In the Fall of 2012, having had a chance to look at the raw numbers for the first time, I sent a series of posts to the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry along with a request that they consider retracting their article. I had written Dr. Andres Martin the […]