J&J chooses Yale to review requests for clinical drug data Reuters Jan 30, 2014 Under the agreement, the "Yale Open Data Access Project," will independently review and make final decisions regarding all requests for information on the company’s drug clinical trials, including anonymous patient data. Johnson & Johnson has selected the Yale School of Medicine […]
Conflicts of Interest Psycritic January 26, 2014 The following story was recounted to me by someone who was there: He was indignant. Outraged, even. He was a department chair. A prominent psychiatrist and author of textbooks. A Key Opinion Leader in the field. How dare the New York Times question him? The psychiatry residents sat […]
I suppose it’s hard to imagine that 3" of snow and 3° can totally shut down a place if you live in the North, but it can – and has. On the television, people say we’re not used to it and giggle at our paralysis. The problem may have something to do with that, but […]
i·ro·ny noun: irony the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Well, my last post provoked a response that was surprising, at least to me [an irony of pharma past…]. Ben Goldacre took it as a criticism: I’ll continue to devote an enormous amount […]
This is an excellent article on the state of play with AllTrials in the UK. I left the footnotes in for those who might want to chase the references down. But that’s not the only reason to post it. Maybe across the pond, everyone knows what a Wellcome research fellow is, but the word hasn’t […]
There’s a story that’s compelling to me. Well, that’s only half right. It’s the story about the story that’s compelling [the unforgotten unremembered…, the twilight zone…]. Richard Noll, a psychologist scholar at DeSales University wrote an article called When Psychiatry Battled the Devil [online full text on Gary Greenberg’s site]. It’s about the strangest of […]
May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014
Well, I was on the road for the weekend and came back to find three posts about the Kupfer Affaire, each looking at a different piece of the puzzle: WINDY CITY BLUES: Bernard Carroll @ Healthcare Renewal Psychiatrists From Another Dimension [Part 2]: Neuroskeptic @ Neuroskeptic Conflict of Interest, DSM-5, and the APA: Sandra Steingard […]
This isn’t really a post, it’s a test to see if a Nexus tablet with a Blue Tooth keyboard will actually work on the road. So far, so good. If you can see it, it means it made it to my server. UPDATE: Well thanks for the feedback. It does work. I couldn’t resist looking […]