Watchdog says the recently updated “Declaration of Helsinki” Medical Research Code reinforces experiments on unconsenting mental health patients, a practice the group warns violates the… ...
Madness is currently undergoing a redesign, with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often called the ‘Psychiatrist’s Bible’ being updated. Basically, a big group of grey-haired ...
Recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution 52/12 on mental health and human rights, which calls on the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a ...
“Pharmaceutical companies and prescribers have a greater duty to warn consumers about risks such as violent or suicidal thoughts. While not all patients will experience violent behavior, the evidence ...
In a rare move, the Justice Department on Tuesday announced that it had charged a former vice president and top lawyer for the British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline with making false statements and ...
The psychiatrist’s research was once equated in cruelty with the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on African Americans; an expert questioned if a study was a violation… ...
The “Psychosis Risk” proposal has stimulated widespread opposition (even I am told from within the Workgroup itself). The arguments against it are simply overwhelming. The false positive rate in ...
When Dorothy Washburn Dundas was 19 years old she became sad, felt lonely and attempted suicide by swallowing a half a bottle of aspirin. Her parents took her to the Massachusetts General Hospital ...