When I first heard of the U-Turn in the EMA’s data transparency policy [the U-Turn…, the end game…, to be continued…, a decision to reconsider…], I naively thought that it was perhaps a misunderstanding, that they though this view-on-screen-only business was a convenient way to display data and didn’t represent a massive change in policy. […]
There can be little question that Dr. Brooks’ Program [not yet done…] was innovative and successful, considering the cohort he set out to treat [described even after being medicated]: The patients, as a group, were very slow, concentrated poorly, seemed confused and frequently had some impairment or distortion of recent or remote memory. They were […]
One of the nicest things about being retired is that I can think about what I want to think about. And it’s obvious that my response to the Individual Resiliency Training [IRT] component of the RAISE project has hit one of those things that I’ve wanted to muse about for a long time. I realize […]
There’s a discussion going on in the comments of Dr. David Healy’s blog about the goings on with the EMA U-Turn on data transparency [a decision to reconsider…] between good guys who have their differences – Ben Goldacre and David Healy. It’s around the issue of the place of the Pharmaceutical industry in the negotiations […]
Long ago [in the late 1970s or early 1980s sometime], a friend invited a psychiatrist who was in town to come to a journal club he chaired. The visitor was a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst who had retired from an interesting career. For years, he’d directed a public mental health center in the mornings, and then gone to […]
I recognize that in the last post [another IRT prequel…], I’ve stepped out of the general frame of Evidence-Based Medicine in that it’s the experience of a single clinician with a small number of cases. While it’s reinforced by my own teachers and patients, and from reading the writings of a lot of clinicians [Eugene […]
re·cov·er·y [] n. pl. re·cov·er·ies The act, process, duration, or an instance of recovering. A return to a normal condition. Something gained or restored in recovering. The act of obtaining usable substances from unusable sources. In its effectiveness… I was fretting about the Individual Resiliency Training [IRT] that is part of the RAISE ETP Project. It’s […]
Reading and rereading the response of the European Medicines Agency to the European Ombudsman posted in to be continued…, I can only conclude that someone has done a powerful sales job about what they call the view-on-screen-only system [a self contained "remote desktop"] – selling it as something it neither is nor can become. As […]
During my working years, I never watched much serialized television drama – those things like The West Wing that captivated the interest of so many. I preferred my entertainment as films or stage productions. There was an exception, three years in the 70s in a tiny rural village in England where those things just weren’t […]
Well, life is never simple. Here’s an extract from the European Medicines Agency’s reply yesterday to the European Ombudsman’s letter [see the end game…]: …As we discussed in our videoconference some months ago, I would like to dispel any doubt about the strong commitment of EMA to pursue the objective of increasing transparency with regard […]