Thursday, January 31, 2008

Peer Review, GSK, Cash, and Limp Noodles

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Stephanie Saul has a quite interesting story in the New York Times about a peer-reviewer who really dropped the ball. A key member of th...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Fred Hassan's Hindquarters: Meet Peter Rost's Boot

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Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassan gets served (link contains adult language) by Peter Rost. Badly. While Hassan has been hailed as some sor...
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The Serotonin Monster Strikes Again

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Last Halloween, I discussed the legendary Serotonin Monster , that is, the alleged chemical imbalance that causes depression, anxiety, aggre...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Bribing Physicians: Where My Money At?

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An utterly fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal by Vanessa Fuhrmans notes that insurers are moving to bribe doctors for prescribi...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

My Political Leanings Are Out in the Open (Sort of)

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As noted on the Scientific Misconduct Blog and PharmaGossip , there is an online test available (the Political Compass ) that claims to mea...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Key Opinion Leaders, Continuing Medical Education, and Utter B.S.

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Psychiatrist Bernard Carroll has another brilliant post on corrupt, er, continuing medical education (CME) and how the process has been co...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Defending the Hiding of Negative Clinical Trial Data

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In the wake of the New England Journal of Medicine study that revealed a sizable discrepancy between the raw data on antidepressants and th...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Risperdal for Depression: A Depressing Look

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Bernard Carroll, a psychiatrist who is known for laying down the smack on drug industry spin, has a fantastic post at Health Care Renewal ...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Antidepressants: Hiding and Spinning Negative Data

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As I alluded to yesterday , a whopper of a study has just appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine . It tracked each study antidepre...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Antidepressants: You Dropped a Bomb on Me

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According to a hot-off-the-press article in the New England Journal of Medicine , publication bias in antidepressants has been quite quite s...

Zetia: Just the Latest Chapter in Hiding Data

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There have been many interesting posts written about how data regarding Zetia were buried for quite some time. One of the main storylines ...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Zetia, Paxil, Medical Journals, Fraud, Etc,

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I've been busy wiping up tears after the Frontline episode on medicating children with a wide variety of psychiatric medicines. Well w...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Big Pharma: Marketing Ain't Cheap

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A fantastic post on Hooked summarizes the most recent study in PLoS Medicine that estimates drug marketing expenditures at roughly $57.5 b...
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Inaccurate Advertising Hurts

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I'm late to the game on this post, and this material has been covered well on other sites. In case you've missed it, a recent meta-...
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Friday, January 04, 2008

Drug Company Marketing Expenditures

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How about $57 billion or so annually? More coming in a few days. In the meantime, read this and see what you think.
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Massachusetts Medicaid Kids

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As reported initially by the Boston Globe , then covered by the AHRP Blog and Furious Seasons , Massachusetts has implemented a mental heal...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Risperdal for Depression Study Hammered Yet Again

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A letter to the editor in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology has slapped the ARISE-RD study, which examined Risperdal as a treatment for d...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

New Year, New Look

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I've decided to change the look of the site. If you feel strongly one way or the other, let me know.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Changes?

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Alex Chernavsky has written many thoughtful comments on this blog, which I greatly appreciate. His latest comment is about the p otential ...
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Friday, December 21, 2007

Zetia: But Why Would We Show You the Scary Data?

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Alex Berenson has potentially unearthed another December Surprise for a major drug company. You may recall that last December, Berenson sta...
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