Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Friday, May 14, 2010

Eli Lilly: Our Drug Failed, So it Has Serious Potential

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These folks at Lilly must think we are exceptionally stupid. As in can't tie our own shoes. A study in the Journal of Psychiatric Re...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Lend Me Your Name

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Journalism regarding the horrors of ghostwritten papers in medical journals is all the rage these days ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). Here's my very sma...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Lamictal: Break Out the Shovel

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GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of lamotrigine (Lamictal), the antiepileptic drug used widely for bipolar disorder, happily hid clinical tr...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Cymbalta Schatz-Storm: Duplicate Publication and Lying by Omission

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This post details the duplicate publication of data on the antidepressant duloxetine (Cymbalta). Marketing and "science" collide ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Investigative Journalism Par Excellence

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I am a little late in reporting this story, but there is a must-read post from Jonathan Leo over at Chemical Imbalance that I must bring to...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Conflicts, Bad Science, and Corlux

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Recently, the watchful eyes of Charles Grassley have been peering into the bank accounts of big name psychiatrists. Melissa DelBello and J...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Paxil, Lies, and the Lying Researchers Who Tell Them

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A bombshell has just appeared in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine. The subject of the paper is Paxil study 329, ...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

Key Opinion Leaders, Osteoporosis, Vioxx, Psychiatry, Science, and Patients

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Remember Richard Eastell? To summarize briefly, he is a professor at Sheffield University who was lead author on a publication that showed ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Genetic Testing for Bipolar: Are You Kidding Me?

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Academics Dr. John Kelsoe and Kurt May have fired the warning shot: Genetic testing for mental disorders is on its way. Like much else in t...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Nemeroff Confirms Kirsch: SSRIs Offer Little Benefit

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This post will discuss how the latest meta-analysis claiming to show public health benefits for Effexor actually also showed that antidepres...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

HipSaver: Diss Us and We'll Sue You

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In an amazing and highly troubling move, HipSaver , a corporation that manufactures hip protection gear, is suing the authors of a study who...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Why I Love the Discussion Section

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A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology found that aripiprazole (Abilify) offered no benefit over placebo in treating ...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Blumsohn, History, and Fire

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Wow. I noted yesterday in a History (and Future) Lesson that Aubrey Blumsohn posted a list of scientific misconduct related goodies tha...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Peer Review Is Mediocre at Best

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Regarding bias in "science" and the utter balderdash that passes for peer-reviewed science, I sometimes feel like a lone voice in...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Convenient Honesty and Zoloft

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Recently, a study was published which cast doubt on the efficacy of sertraline (Zoloft) for PTSD, finding that the drug was no better than ...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Procter & Gamble: Purple Haze

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The Procter & Gamble –Aubrey Blumsohnn saga has officially turned into tragicomedy to the 7 th power. As you may know, Blumsohn was p...