Why did it take 19 months to retrieve clinical trial data from a non-profit organisation? by Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark British Medical Journal. 2013 347:f6927. [full text on-line] Missing data in clinical trials is a major problem. One would expect the situation to be better for trials funded by large non-profit […]
KMSP-TV
from davidhealy.org From: Rasi Guido <Guido.Rasi@ema.europa.eu> Date: 5 December 2013 11:10 Subject: Update on EMA appeal of EU Court interim measures decision in AbbVie and InterMune court cases To: Dear colleagues and friends, I have written a number of times over the past months to keep you informed of developments in the AbbVie and Intermune cases. There […]
U faculty calls for review of controversial drug study Star Tribune by JEREMY OLSON December 5, 2013 Nearly a decade after Dan Markingson died by suicide while participating in a U of M drug trial for schizophrenics, the U’s Faculty Senate raised his death as a reason to re-examine their institution’s handling of vulnerable research […]
Pfizer Peels Back The Curtain On Clinical Trial Data Pharmalot by Ed Silverman 12/04/2013 In response to the growing debate over disclosure of clinical trial data, Pfizer has announced an updated policy and web site that will publish large amounts of information and offer a procedure for independent researchers to obtain study data for analysis. […]
I’ve been trying to find a way to see the double entry of the Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome [outright skullduggery…] as some kind of publication error [a corrigendum as they like to call it]. But I can’t make that work. The two different definitions are indexed in the back of the book and appear to be […]
Dr. Allen Frances’ service in vetting the DSM-5 while it was under construction is well known to all of us. And if you’ve had any dealings with him, you know that while he’s persistent, he’s also a very kind man. He fought hard to keep the DSM-5 from running completely off the tracks, but didn’t […]
What’s a "black box"? It can be a machine, or a piece of computer code, some body function, anything that does something – turns an input of some kind into an output of some other kind. The term is used when we either don’t know or don’t care how it does it. For most, the […]