Will Male Breasts Derail A J&J Settlement Over Risperdal Marketing? Pharmalot by Ed Silverman 05/10/2013 A much-anticipated settlement of various federal government probes into Johnson & Johnson marketing of the Risperdal antipsychotic, as well as other medications, is being delayed over language the health care giant fears may cause difficulties for a raft of private […]
There’s a newish blog in town: Psychology Today‘s "How Everyone Became Depressed: The rise and fall of the nervous breakdown" by Dr. Edward Shorter, medical and psychiatric historian at the University of Toronto. This week, he weighs in on the NIMH v. DSM-5 story and coming APA Meeting [with a very apt title] and also […]
Spent yesterday with matters medical, mostly local. When I passed by the television as the day settled down this afternoon, CNN was going strong with coverage of the verdict in the Jodi Arias trial – media frenzy at its highest pitch. Every commentator and quaisi-expert in America has something to say. Later, I finally sat […]
Willie Nelson and Diane Carroll sang a duet in their country music classic Honeysuckle Rose: There must be two sides to every story. And who’s to say, who’s right and who is wrong?… Well here’s one now – two sides: Glaxo And Its Transparency Effort Finally Moves Forward Pharmalot by Ed Silverman 05/07/2013 Witty […]
It was a working morning for me at the free clinic where I volunteer. As always, a full schedule. By the standards of the urban set I’m used to from Atlanta, the people of Appalachia live pretty hard lives; often out of work; a lot of alcohol and drug abuse; "broken homes" in more ways […]
Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say New York Times By PAM BELLUCK and BENEDICT CAREY May 6, 2013 Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific “lack […]
The DSM-5, the RDoC, the APA, the NIMH, the scandals, the PHARMA suits – it has all been going on so long that those of us following the widening gyre are all kind of fuzzy from thinking about it all. It’s nice to read something from a more editorial position rathe than front page perspective. […]
hat tip to PaulRobert…
di·ag·no·sis [dg-nss] n. pl. di·ag·no·ses [-sz] 1. Medicine a. The act or process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of a disease or injury through evaluation of patient history, examination, and review of laboratory data. b. The opinion derived from such an evaluation. 2. a. A critical analysis of the nature of something. […]