“How to Win Wars by Influencing People’s Behaviour”
The Guardian explores the ways that the military is using "a new approach informed by the behavioral sciences . . .Ā changing behaviour ā not...
Prominent Patient Safety Advocate Was Taking Kickbacks from Pharma
ProPublica revisits the story of Dr. Chuck Denham, the previous editor of the Journal of Patient Safety and former "co-chairman of a committee that...
“Instead of paying doctors to promote their drugs, GlaxoSmithKline has decided to pay doctors...
In "Time is on Their Side," 1BoringOldMan explains that with their announcement that they will no longer pay outside doctors to promote their drugs,...
Ireland’s Implementation of Rights Covenant Under Examination
Next week the United Nations Human Rights Committee is scheduled to begin evaluating Ireland's progress towards implementing the International Covenant on Civil and Political...
“Suffering From Depression? Take a Course of Surf Lessons! Doctors Prescribe Watersports for Young...
A pilot program of Britain's national health service prescribes surfing lessons for youth with anxiety disorders.Ā 'What is great is it doesnāt feel like therapy...
Risks of Preterm Births for Developing Brains
-Nature explores our growing understanding about the risks of preterm births for the development of children's brains.
“Off-Label Prescribing: What You Donāt Know Could Hurt You”
PharmaWatch Canada details the paradoxes of off-label prescribing, in which doctors may prescribe but pharmaceutical companies may not promote medication for conditions for which...
Are Psychology Tests Still Useful When We Mock Them?
Various psychologists weigh in on a debate in The Atlantic about a widely used and frequently cited psychology test to assess people's moral compass....
“Your Child’s Religion may be ‘Mental Illness'”
āFastidiousness to religious practicesā may be a sign of mental illness, according to an article on Time Mgazine's website. "Itās not unusual that children...
Health is not “Alternative”
Beyond Meds lays bare the irony that "practicing simple healthy habits is called 'alternative' health and/or medicine."
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Misconduct, Intentional and/or Institutional, in Science and Finance
Neuroskeptic compares misconduct as it occurs in science to that of finance, finding that deliberate rule-breaking such as that of Bernie Madoff and others,...
“Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Explore”
A process that turns brains into something like clear Jell-o offers "a much more precise picture of what is happening in the brains of...
“What’s it Really Like to Take Antidepressants?”
Britain's HealthTalkOnline.org offers videotaped interviews with 36 people in their homes, talking about their decision to take antidepressants and the impact of that decision...
“Stop Forced (Involuntary) Treatment Becoming the Law of the Land. Act Now”
Beyond Meds provides the information you need if you want to stop section 224 of HR 4302 - A list of senators, and a...
“Scandal Shows Mental Health Inpatient Voice is Crucial”
The U.K.'s GuardianĀ writes, of lessons learned from the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, that "the individuals who society finds easiest to ignore are the...
“Depressing Truth About Treating Depression in the Young”
An Irish journalist poses as a student and receives seven prescriptions for antidepressants from seven psychiatrists, with little or no information either taken or...
Half of New Zealanders Not Comfortable Having a New Neighbor with a Mental Illness
-The 2014 New Zealand General Social Survey showed many New Zealanders feel more comfortable having neighbors with different sexual orientations or from minority groups than with mental illness.
Is Health Information Security Dead?
-The director of the Office for Civil Rights discusses the latest wave of data breaches of American citizens' health information.
Judge Drug Companies by Actions, Not Promises
Ben Goldacre writes about Glaxo's, as well as the pharmaceutical industry's, history of broken promises regarding access to clinical trial data.
A New Kind of Empirical Article
Neurochambers' Chris Chambers, a freshly-minted associate editor for journal Cortex, asks for comments on "the most important thing I have committed to this blog...
Parasites Can Alter Behavior
Science News reviews the prevalence of Toxoplasmosis Gondii in humans, and its effects on behavior. Though the connection of Gondii to schizophrenia is weak,...
