The post made in america… was about Peter Parry’s paper, Biologism in Psychiatry: A Young Man’s Experience of Being Diagnosed with “Pediatric Bipolar Disorder”. It’s a case study written as an interview of the patient himself about his lost adolescence as a Bipolar Child patient, with Peter’s thoughtful analysis of the case and the whole […]
There is a SAMHSA [Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration] Report now available for free download on-line [National Expenditures for Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse Treatment, 1986-2009] that is, in my opinion, a must-read for interested parties. That said, I hasten to add that it’s hard, because it’s written for policy wonks, and […]
A message from Carl Elliott: In early December, we delivered a petition signed by over 3,500 of you to Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, calling for an investigation of the death of Dan Markingson in a University of Minnesota psychiatric research study. That same week, the Faculty Senate at the university also overwhelmingly approved a resolution […]
While I have no business in the details of legal matters, I was really glad to read this article. It’s part of the fallout from the TMAP scam that has been dragging on now for ten long years: Arkansas AG asks state Supreme Court to reconsider its tossing of $1.2B Johnson & Johnson fine The […]
If Glaxo’s CEO wants to be Mr. Clean, he needs to pick up a broom Fierce PharmaMarketing By Tracy Staton April 7, 2014 GlaxoSmithKline [$GSK] says it’s rolling out sales and marketing reforms around the world. Apparently, the changes come none too soon. The British drugmaker opened another bribery investigation, this time in Iraq, to […]
Biologism in Psychiatry: A Young Man’s Experience of Being Diagnosed with “Pediatric Bipolar Disorder” by Peter Parry Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2014 3:334-347. [full text online] Pediatric bipolar disorder is a diagnosis that arose in the mid 1990s in the USA and has mostly remained confined to that nation. In this article a young American […]
In the Fall of 2012, having had a chance to look at the raw numbers for the first time, I sent a series of posts to the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry along with a request that they consider retracting their article. I had written Dr. Andres Martin the […]
And so I’m at a coffee house in Black Mountain, NC on a beautiful sunny day and I pull out my iPhone for a bit of free WiFi, after a morning visiting with relatives, and I’m stunned. Yesterday’s article on Paxil Study 329 was pretty great [Controversial Paxil paper still under fire 13 years later], […]
Controversial Paxil paper still under fire 13 years later Some say former U. professor Martin Keller’s paper was ghostwritten and should be retracted The Brown Daily Herald By Isobel Heck April 2, 2014 Former University Professor Martin Keller published a 2001 paper on the drug Paxil that has allegedly been ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. Two weeks […]
Medical school leaders cash in on drug company boards Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By John Fauber April 1, 2014 While university doctors who moonlight for drug companies have faced intense scrutiny in recent years, new research suggests much larger sums of money are being paid to their bosses — the leaders of medical schools and hospitals […]