The Onion: “Family Receives 38-Piece AstraZeneca Assorted Pill Sampler”
From The Onion: “I like the blue-and-red ones a lot, but I’ll pretty much eat any of them except for the yellows; I always...
“Study Links Nutrition to Brain Health and Intelligence in Older Adults”
A study of older adults links consumption of a pigment found in leafy greens to the preservation of "crystallized intelligence," the ability to use...
“Pharmacies Miss Half of Dangerous Drug Combinations”
The Chicago Tribune tested 255 pharmacies to see how often stores would dispense dangerous drug pairs without warning patients. Fifty-two percent of the pharmacies...
“Connection Between Pfizer and Synthetic ‘Zombie’ Drug”
An illegal drug that was originally developed by Pfizer Inc. is behind a spate of overdoses in Brooklyn that sent more than two dozen...
“German Libraries Boycott Elsevier Demanding Open Access”
Germany's DEAL project, which includes over 60 major research institutions, has announced that all of its members are canceling their subscriptions to all of...
“Psychiatry’s List of Disorders Needs Real-Time Updates”
In a First Opinion piece for STAT, Michael First argues that a digital DSM should allow updates between editions. The American Psychiatric Association (APA)...
“Suffering from the Symptoms of Neoliberalism”
In this podcast with the New Books Network, author Paul Verhaeghe discusses his book, “What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based...
Alan Schwarz ‘ADHD Nation’ Podcast
The New York Times correspondent Alan Schwarz exposes the roots and rise of ADHD, and reveals the powerful forces fueling its widespread diagnosis and...
“The Lizard Inside”
For aeon, Roberta Payne, a professor of literature and the author of Speaking to My Madness: How I Searched for Myself in Schizophrenia, writes...
“The Miseducation of Frank Waln”
Studies of modern Native Americans have shown that “historical trauma,” the name that social workers give to the perception of historical loss passed down through...
“Psychiatric Shock Therapy, Long Controversial, may Face Fresh Restrictions”
For STAT, Judith Graham reports that regulators “are poised to enact new restrictions on psychiatry’s most controversial treatment, electroconvulsive therapy, which treats people with acute mental...
“The Code I’m Still Ashamed of (for Pharma)”
“One of the projects I was assigned to involved a drug that was targeted at women. The graphics and general style of the website...
“Creation Engineering: The Art and Science of Naming Drugs”
"Prozac is what I call the Big Bang of pharmaceutical naming. It came out of nowhere, it means absolutely nothing, and it really just...
“Patients Increasingly Influence the Direction of Medical Research”
From NPR’s Morning Edition: “Patients and their advocates are getting an ever-larger voice in how medical research is carried out. They participate in the...
“Can Mental Health Apps Bring Therapy to a Wider Population?”
From the Pacific Standard: “Mental health apps offer therapeutic solutions at far more flexible price points, schedules, and platforms than traditional therapy. But with...
“21st Century Cures Bill Would Weaken Requirements for Disclosing Industry Ties”
Ed Silverman reports for STAT that a provision tucked into the 21st Century Cares legislation exempts companies from reporting payments made to doctors, journals,...
Major Depressive Disorder and “the Confusion of Tongues…”
The 1 Boring Old Man blog discusses how MDD started as a “Descriptor, then became a Disorder, then became a Brain Disease, and now seems have...
Asylum Magazine Releases “Pathologise This”
Asylum Magazine, An International Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, has released a new issue entitled, “Pathologise This.” The feature articles include “Mad Studies Comes of...
“For One Condition, the Drugs Came Before the Disorder”
An investigative report in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel explores the pharmaceutical industries involvement in the creation of the ‘mental illness’ known as Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder...
“Illness Inflation”
The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel presents an interactive infographic detailing the pharmaceutical industry’s involvement in the promotion of several psychiatric disorders, including adult ADHD, binge-eating...
“FDA Agrees to New Trials for Ecstasy as Relief for PTSD Patients”
Last week, the FDA gave permission for ecstasy to move into Phase 3 clinical trials for the treatment of PTSD. “If they can keep...
How ‘Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder’ was Created by Pharma
For MinnPost, Susan Perry discusses that the pharmaceutical industry played in the creation of the ‘mental disorder’ known as premenstrual dysphoric disorder or PMDD....
“Recoil, Reform, Repeat”
For The Boston Globe, Michael Rezendes writes about the dehumanizing conditions for mental health patients and the Bridgewater State Hospital. While previous exposés have...
“These Are the World’s 10 Top-Selling Pharmaceutical Drugs”
Abilify, the antipsychotic developed by the Japanese Otsuka Group, is listed as the number four top-selling pharmaceutical, according to the influence.
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“House Passes Controversial Medical Funding ‘Cures’ Bill”
“Democrats and consumer groups were upset with the bill's streamlining of some Food and Drug Administration processes, including making it easier for companies to...
