senator grassley

HARVARD PSYCHIATRY FAILS AGAIN

Revised HHS Rules for Conflict of Interest Fall Short

Senator Grassley has sent a letter out to ten major health IT vendors seeking information on health IT problems and flaws.

The letter can be retrieved from this link (PDF) at the Washington Post.

Read the whole thing.

I could have titled this piece "have the deceivers been themselves deceived?"

Recent revelations have shown that biomedical ghostwriting is a scourge that some physicians and scientists -- who are clearly lacking ethics, insight and perhaps an understanding of psychiatric defense mechanisms such as rationalization -- engage in all too often, as it taints the corpus of worldwide scientific literature.

STOSSEL and ACRE – WHERE’S the BEEF?

INSTITUTE of MEDICINE REPORT on CONFLICT of INTEREST

MISSING in ACTION on MEDSCAPE

FOLLOW the MONEY, Part II

COMMERCIAL BIAS at STANFORD and CORCEPT

Stanford University has replaced Dr.

Alan Schatzberg as Principal Investigator on his NIH grant that studies psychotic depression. This step followed persistent questions from Senator Grassley about conflicts of interest and financial disclosure.

Dr. Schatzberg’s drug mifepristone has been in NIH-supported clinical trials at Stanford and in FDA-monitored trials sponsored by Corcept, the company Dr.

Schatzberg founded.

FOLLOW the MONEY