Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Psychiatrists Get Religion, to a Degree

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When I was doing research for HOOKED, one of my all-time favorite quotes came from a great press expose about the excesses of commercial spo...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

JAMA Editors Need to Come Down off their High Horse--and 'Fess Up

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The story about JAMA has been brewing for some days now, and every time I go to write about it, a new chapter emerges. Let me try to walk y...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

The Seroquel Story--There They Go Again

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Veteran reporter Shankar Vedantam gave us the main scoop earlier in the week in the Washington Post : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/c...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Let's Cut Dr. Biederman Some Slack--Just a Little

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The text for this sermon is Gardiner Harris's article in today's New York Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/us/20psych.html?...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Celebrex--What Don't We Know Yet about Its Risks?

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As summarized in HOOKED, Celebrex (celecoxib) is the only COX-2 selective nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug left standing in the marketplac...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Psychiatry: Looking in the Mirror?

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A recent editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry -- http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/2009/3/ajpconflictcommentary.pdf --is notab...
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Students at Harvard Gain National Press Coverage with Protest

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This story has been unfolding for a while and I regret being too busy with my day job to get to it till now. It began with a story in the Ne...