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Some who set policy tied to industry

Virtually all the psychiatrists who wrote the latest clinical guidelines for how to treat depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia had financial ties to drug companies, according to preliminary findings by Boston-based researchers. Their study ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  2 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  Pfizer Inc.,  Bristol-Myers Squibb,  AstraZeneca PLC,  Eli Lilly & Co

A talk with Judi Chamberlain

That is the motto of a grass-roots movement that has carried various names over the last generation, but has always revolved around a single principle: self-determination for people diagnosed with mental illness. Call them psychiatric patients or ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  21 Mar 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Shaken baby cases on the increase

Cases of the potentially devastating brain injury known as shaken baby syndrome have at least doubled in the last few months, a jump that Massachusetts child abuse specialists say is apparently influenced by families' economic stress. Child protection ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  18 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Louise Woodward

West treats East

Though recently granted political asylum in America, Yeshi Togden, a Tibetan monk, knew no peace. All his training in meditation could not block the flashbacks from his months as a political prisoner, beaten and wracked by thirst, or stop the obsessive ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  13 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Boston Medical Center,  Dalai Lama

Glitzy video slots seen as particular addiction risk

Among addiction specialists, video slot machines have come to be known as the "crack cocaine" of the gambling industry. The mechanical wheels of spinning fruit used in the old one-armed bandits have gone the way of the typewriter. Modern-day slot ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  6 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Deval Patrick

Lawyer accuses girl's doctor of misdeeds

A lawyer for the estate of Rebecca Riley, a Hull 4-year-old who died of an overdose of psychiatric drugs, argued before a malpractice tribunal yesterday that the girl's psychiatrist had committed a "laundry list" of medical misdeeds and should be held ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  4 Mar 2009

Noncrisis line lends a wise, sympathetic ear for troubled callers

"Peer warm line. This is David. How can I help?" David Wilson, a longtime veteran-to-veteran counselor, has talked many a man through many a hard time, but this conversation on Monday was a milestone. It was his maiden call as part of a new Boston ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  5 Feb 2009
Related Topics: David Wilson (politician),  Department of Health,  Boston Medical Center

Doctor scrutinized for drug-firm ties gets kudos from bipolar patients, kin

Marcie Lipsitt found that all she had to do was page Dr. Joseph Biederman or another doctor on his pediatric psychiatry team with that message, and she would get a call back within two minutes to help her through her son Andrew's latest violent crisis. ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  30 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  Johnson & Johnson,  Charles E. Grassley,  U.S. Republican Party,  Linda Blair

Study may cast light on mental illnesses

You're sitting at a dull meeting and your attention drifts. You're waiting in a check-out line, thinking of nothing in particular. You're lying in bed, having just turned off the television. At such times, your conscious mind is on "idle," but your ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Harvard University

Off the couch and into the lab

The patient bemoans the girlfriend he dumped because he couldn't let her get too close. He berates himself as a loser who purposely fails in order to show his parents how badly they messed him up. The therapist listens closely, humming "uh-huhs," and ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  11 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Sigmund Freud,  American Medical Association

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