Did the gene-drug revolution just arrive?
Did the genomic revolution arrive last week, or was that just the snowstorm? The answer depends on whom you listened to and what they thought of a study publish...
Tag: pharma
Paxil shown unsafe for teens, drugmaker congratulates self for sharing damning data it hid for years
This post got an upgrade: The revised, expanded version is now at The Atlantic. Many thanks to the folks at The Atlantic for picking it up. If you need a teaser...
Whence Comes Anxiety? Scott Stossel Explains
Scott Stossel’s fine vivid account of his spectacular struggles with anxiety — an Atlantic article excerpted from his new book —carries, among other pleas...
A Book Almost Impossible to Have Lived and Written: Roberta Payne’s “Speaking to My Madness”
I wanted to kill myself. Almost. In my mind I went right to that edge and knew that I wanted to try to kill myself but be found while I was still alive. But ...
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I Got Your 23andMe – FDA Food Fight Links Right Here
Below find my ever-growing annotated collection of online responses to the FDA’s recent shot across the bow of 23andMe, the consumer genetics company. Unt...
FDA Muzzles 23andMe After Talks Break Down
Note: If you’re here for the annotated links to other perspectives on the 23andMe/FDA dust-up, you should go instead to I Got Your 23andMe – FDA Food Figh...
Stephen Fry on Suicide, and Wanting Both to Be Alone and Be Left Alone
The wonderful actor and writer Stephen Fry attempted suicide last year. Yesterday — by chance the same day a story of mine about suicide came out in the Times —...
Talk Therapy or Pill? A Brain Scan May Tell What’s Best
In a new paper out yesterday in JAMA Psychiatry, a team led by Emory University neurologist Helen Mayberg, whom I’ve written about several times, identifi...
“The Book of Woe” – Gary Greenberg’s Romp of a Read About the DSM Debacle
Note: This review first appeared in Nature, 2 May 2012. My thanks to Nature for the commission and fine editorial support. When it is published later this month...
A Geek Manifesto for America
Yesterday, the U.S. Congress, like Wyle E. Coyote on an especially lucky day, scrambled back onto the fiscal cliff that Congress itself had jumped off of, havin...