So I saw this title in Google while searching for something else and clicked it. It took me to a Fox News blog, FoxNation. The short article wasn’t what struck me. It was the comments. I’ve included the first page or so. I was kind of stunned… Liberals Waste No Time Taunting Dick Cheney for […]
Unless this blog is your only source of news, you can’t help but notice that the story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his 1998 paper alleging that MMR Vaccine was linked to childhood Autism has been all over the news – a story gone Madoff. One has to ask, "Why now?" Brian Deer: Piltdown medicine: […]
Danny Carlat just published an announcement he received from the Discovery Institute of Medical Education, an announcement for a coming conference in March: "Medical Education Forum"? Or a Dying Industry’s Last Gasp? The Carlat Psychiatry blog January 5, 2011 I just received the email below because I’m a member of a CME industry group, most […]
All this recent digging around about the PHARMA invasion of psychiatry weighs on my mind at times. I get a creepy feeling about a profession I found fascinating and rewarding. Phrases in the articles like monotherapy, treatment resistant depression, comorbid this-and-that, the neurobiology of … begin to grate on my nerves. It’s not that I […]
Some years back, I jokingly referred to clinical drug trials as "the grid." What I was referring to was the fact that they were putting all the possible psychiatric diagnoses on the top row of a table and all the psychiatric drugs in the left column – then filling in the blanks with clinical trials. […]
January 1, 2011 The Long Road Ahead The figure above illustrates Okun’s Law — the relationship between growth and unemployment… The horizontal axis shows annual growth rates of real GDP; the vertical axis shows the year-to-year change in the unemployment rate. Two things are clear. First, the economy has to grow around 2 1/2 percent […]
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life, hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. John Greenleaf Whittier I grew up in the 1940s in a reasonable family – not much inundated with religion or superstition. But there were still some things to complain about – […]
From 1993 through 1995, Astrazeneca undertook a large, multi-center trial comparing one of the older antipsychotics, Haldol, to several different dose ranges of their new drug, Seroquel [Study 15]. This was prior to Seroquel’s approval by the FDA. Study 15 didn’t come out like they wanted. The internal memo above is from a high ranking […]