Med School professor denies ghostwriting claim Yale Daily News By Traci Tillman December 16, 2010 Four of the six academic medical professionals accused of signing their names to ghostwritten studies and texts have denied the claims, including School of Medicine professor Kimberly Yonkers. Yale School of Medicine administrators refused to comment on whether the School […]
With all of this gloomy talk of ghost-writing and pharmaceutical industry influence in academic medicine and continuing medical education, there’s a counterpoint that is extremely positive. Propublica has an Internet site where you can see the amounts being paid to any physician by the pharmaceutical companies. Right now there are seven companies represented, but by […]
I usually don’t cogitate much, I just write and move on. But this time I did cogitate, even sent off a trial balloon along the way. I’ve got a conflict of interest in the mix. It’s not the usual kind – democrat writing about republicans or liberal-ish guy writing about conservatives. This one effected my […]
It’s all over the news, the icy roads in North Georgia, but when I headed for the store around 7 last night, I hadn’t heard that news. I’m used to driving in winter conditions in my 4 wheel drive truck and generally feel bullet-proof in winter road conditions. But last night – another story. Going […]
In all the flurry around the POGO report of Nemeroff’s and Schatzberg’s ghost-written textbook, or Martin Keller’s ghostwritten Paxil Study [329] in adolescents which turned out to be not only ghost-written but also dead wrong, there’s another clearly ghost-written example that has escaped close scrutiny – something of an Editorial in the Journal Biological Psychiatry. […]
There was a time not so long ago when there was no Internet for most of us, no instant access to the data that now streams into my log cabin in the Georgia Mountains even when it’s 18º and the snow is falling like it thinks it belongs here. Tim Berners-Lee introduced html and the […]
Looking at something else entirely, I ran across this blog post referenced in a comment. It deserves more attention that I can give it. It’s by Dr. Roy Poses, webmaster of the Health Care Renewal Blog. Why Did US Physicians Give Up Their Ability to Enforce Their Own Professional Standards? Healthcare Renewal by Roy Poses […]
2 Memphis physicians top national list for speaking fees from drug companies Commercial Appeal By Toby Sells December 12, 2010 Two Memphis doctors rank second and third on a national list of doctors who have taken the most money from pharmaceutical companies to give talks about their drugs to other doctors. Wesley Neurology Clinic neurologist […]
Mark Madoff, son of Bernie Madoff, had it all before dad’s billion-dollar Ponzi scheme was exposed New York Daily News By Jonathan Lemire and James Fanelli December 11th 2010 Mark Madoff, the handsome prince of Bernie Madoff’s ill-gotten kingdom, lived the sweet life before his father’s $65 billion scam imploded. During one three-month period in […]