Sunday, June 08, 2008

Move over Melissa Del Bello - make way for The Harvard Psych Crew

Three prominent Harvard University psychiatrists underreported payments they received from drug makers, a situation that highlights the need for a national reporting system of pharmaceutical company payments to physicians, according to Sen. Charles Grassley.

Sen. Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, said his staff compared records of payments provided by drug makers with conflict-of-interest forms the three psychiatrists provided to the university and Massachusetts General Hospital, where they practice.




Pushin' drugs into kids on a corner near you! Yo!


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very disturbing. Thanks for posting this.

Anonymous said...

These guys were all my teachers. They were excellent, caring psychiatrists. They are leaders in the field. Of course they were paid by drug companies. That is because Harvard doesn't pay much at all. They spent their weekends lecturing around the country and teaching us all. They were paid for that. It doesn't mean they did not do honest research. That is an assumption without data behind it.

Unknown said...

The real issue is whether these psychiatrists biased their research based on the drug company money. I consider the money reporting issue largely irrelevent unless research bias can be shown. They've done some breakthrough work. Let's base our view of them on the important facts and not punish them for the sake of publicity.

Anonymous said...

It upsets me that the press states that Rebecca died from a "dangerous cocktail" of drugs, but at the same time acknowledges that she died from and dose of clonidine that would be fatal to anyone.

I worked for Dr. Biederman, and as he says, the bar for diagnosing bipolar disorder in children should be very high, and is very high in his clinic.