PAXIL DOCUMENTS Paxil Advisory Board Meeting 1993 A proposal from Scientific Therapeutics Information Inc. for the Paxil Advisory Board Meeting in Palm Beach Florida in November 1993 [the year after the drug was introduced]. Dr. Charles Nemeroff had been chosen to moderate the meeting with the objectives of "Strengthening the Paxil Profile"; "Identifying competitors deficits/strengths"; […]
POGO Letter to NIH on Ghostwriting Academics November 29, 2010 – Revised December 9, 2010 Drug Maker Wrote Book Under 2 Doctors’ Names, Documents Say November 29, 2010 APA Statement: Psychiatric Book Not Ghostwritten November 30, 2010 Ghostbusters at POGO December 1, 2010 Letters from Drs. Nemeroff’s and Schatzberg’s Lawyers to […]
Blair recalled to face further questions on build-up to Iraq war The Independent UK By Nigel Morris 9 December 2010 Tony Blair is to be recalled before the Iraq Inquiry to answer questions over whether he pressured his Attorney General to change his advice on the legality of the war. The former prime minister will […]
Medicine as we know it emerged from the array of "healing arts" in antiquity based not on the promise of cure, but on the promise of doing no harm [primum non nocere] – an antidote to false claims or misplaced therapeutic zeal. And the traditional relationship between doctor and patient was called Aesculapian Authority. Roughly […]
In rapid succession, I received three email alerts today. The first was of a blog post from Dr. Bernard Carroll who argued the obvious point that the physicians who have repeatedly sold out to Pharmaceutical Companies have skirted their egregious ethical violations using legalistic arguments and claims of benign oversights [whoops!], avoiding appropriate censure by […]
This is the beginning and the end of a thoughtful article which taps some of what I feel as the background of my current ranting about the egregious behavior of some of my Psychiatric colleagues. The middle parts are pretty good too and worth a read if the topic is of interest. IS PSYCHIATRY FOR […]
I’m stuck on the most recent Nemeroff revelation – the ghost-written Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. I thought I was done, but it came in the mail today, my 31¢ Amazon purchase. As Carlat’s Blog reported, it’s weighted towards SmithKline Beecham’s SSRI, Paxil. But that’s old news. Frankly, the book itself is amazingly simplistic. […]
Friend Al photographed the back roads of the South throughout his long career as a photographer – the poverty, the hunger, the segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, the life. But none was so haunting as his film of the pentecostal snake handlers of North Georgia and Appalachia. That film, In Jesus’ Name: Taking Up Serpents, […]
Nemeroff and Schatzberg’s “Textbook” Pushed Paxil Carlat Psychiatry Blog by Daniel Carlat December 3, 2010 To sum up, in 1999, Nemeroff and Schatzberg published a textbook called "Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Handbook for Primary Care." It was funded by SmithKline Beecham with a $120,000 "unrestricted educational grant." Documents posted on the […]
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Department of Continuing Education PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 2011: A MASTER CLASS April 29-30,2011 FRIDAY SATURDAY Neurobiology of Psychiatric Syndromes,Normal Attachment and Attachment Disorders Carl Salzman Advances in Sleep Disorders John Winkelman Mechanisms of Schizophrenia: Therapeutic Implications Daniel Weinberger Traditional and New Approaches to Treating Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders David Sheehan Treatment of Schizophrenia: Current […]