I had weathered the massive changes in psychiatry I described in the last post pretty well I thought. I had learned that the people on my side of the street weren’t without sin and made a lot of changes of my own from what I learned. I still loved the profession I’d gravitated to even […]
In an earlier time [mid-1980s], I left academic medicine with the arrival of a new chairman. I’ve talked about that more than enough on this blog, but I want to mention just one thing from that time that seemed only a small part of my general confusion, but has turned out to be much larger […]
December 1, 1955…
I recently discussed a paper demonstrating a three-fold rise in the incidence of Diabetes in children taking Atypical Antipsychotics [what psychiatrists think…]. The cohort in that analysis came from the rolls of Tennessee Medicaid and the results were quite clear: In a comment to my post, Altostrata [Surviving Antidepressants] wrote… … What does it take […]
When I came to psychiatry, I was not drawn by the major disorders like Schizophrenia or Manic Depressive Illness. My experience with madness was like most, spotty from encounters in life – a Manic who wandered into a clothing store where I worked, a medical school classmate who had a psychotic break in our first […]
Eli Lilly says "deeply concerned" by bribery allegations in China Reuters Aug 22, 2013 U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co said it was "deeply concerned" about allegations published in a Chinese newspaper that it spent more than 30 million yuan ($4.90 million) to bribe doctors in China to prescribe the firm’s medicines instead of rival […]
Antipsychotics and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Youth by William V. Bobo, William O. Cooper, C. Michael Stein, Mark Olfson, David Graham, James Daugherty, Catherine Fuchs, Wayne A. Ray JAMA Psychiatry. on-line first. August 21, 2013 Importance The increased prescribing of antipsychotics for children and youth has heightened concerns that […]
Last night, I posted the Harvard Symposium Institutional Corruption and Pharmaceutical Policy as soon as I became aware of its existence and read the first entry [a little light reading…]. But now I’ve had the chance to read a few more of the pieces in the list. If you’re a reader of this blog or […]
There’s more than one answer to these questions, Pointing me in a crooked line… Closer to Fine, Indigo Girls 1989 A Dry Pipeline for Psychiatric Drugs New York Times Perspective By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. August 19, 2013 Fully 1 in 5 Americans take at least one psychiatric medication. Yet when it comes to mental […]