[Fiona]

quotes below from

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/wa...nt&oref=slogin

"After a series of stinging investigations of individual doctors’ arrangements with drug makers, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is demanding that the American Psychiatric Association, the field’s premier professional organization, give an accounting of its financing.

The association is the voice of establishment psychiatry, publishing the field’s major journals and its standard diagnostic manual.

“I have come to understand that money from the pharmaceutical industry can shape the practices of nonprofit organizations that purport to be independent in their viewpoints and actions,” Mr. Grassley said Thursday in a letter to the association.

AND

One of the doctors named by Mr. Grassley is the association’s president-elect, Dr. Alan F. Schatzberg of Stanford, whose $4.8 million stock holdings in a drug development company raised the senator’s concern.

AND

An analysis of Minnesota data by The New York Times last year found that on average, psychiatrists who received at least $5,000 from makers of newer-generation antipsychotic drugs appear to have written three times as many prescriptions to children for the drugs as psychiatrists who received less money or none. The drugs are not approved for most uses in children, who appear to be especially susceptible to the side effects, including rapid weight gain.


AND
In early June, the senator reported to Congress that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a renowned child psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, and a colleague, Dr. Timothy E. Wilens, had reported to university officials earning several hundred thousand dollars apiece in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 when in fact they had earned at least $1.6 million each.


Read these and other sickening details at the link to the Times above....

are these people accountable to nobody??

they must be laffing so hard at us all the time for being so dumb...

[paula_w]

A question came up about a company I will not name at a meeting with people who I won't name because it doesn't matter and this is the internet.

We wanted to get some data results on a follow up trial (phase IV). As you know getting data results can take years. We wondered if the trial had actually taken place. Instead of writing letters, it was suggested that we go through who the company was accountable to for holding this type of trial.

We couldn't come up with anyone , including FDA. We may still find someone, but I doubt it.

paula