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One of the interesting things about social media is catching up with people from your past and finding out what they are doing now. I have caught up with quite a few people who have spread out all over the globe and whom I would have never have heard from otherwise. One of the friends [...]
OK, I (partially) stole the title of this posting from another posting about a paper in Psychology Today about complicated grief and bereavement…
Philip Dawdy is a journalist who writes about mental health news on his blog called Furious Seasons. Since the journalism industry is tanking (yes, I know, there were no newspapers around for you to read about it in) he has been unemployed for the past two years, but using his time well to do [...]
I just wrote a post (which I think will be my last) on The Huffington Post called “Good bye to You, Yaz” about the birth control pill which doctors don’t tell women can make them depressed if it doesn’t kill their libido or make them have heart failure. I haven’t posted there since last November [...]
Since I wrote my post on “A Brief History of Bastards” the letters have been pouring in with readers telling me about their own bastard stories. Well we haven’t been sitting idle here at the Drug News and Health Safety Blog either. In fact, one of us has been asking the question, has [...]
Hmmm… Interesting title, you say. Yes indeed! Not everyday you read about bastards in the Science Section of the New York Times. That, of course, is why readers have to come to alternative news sources like the Drug Safety and Health News Blog to find information on more uncomfortable topics in the realm of medicine and [...]
There has been some press that most of the members of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Psychiatry (DSM-V) task force are on the pharma payroll, but although sites like Public Citizen quote that 16/28 members are on the payroll, if you actually look at the list on the APA web site there are [...]
OK, enough of gods, goddesses, cardiologists and the beings that they impregnate. Those cardiologists will never listen to me any way. Soon everyone over 50 will be on a statin! Anyway, back to the humble world of emotion, psychiatry, and the question of…
…will you be my friend?
That’s right, folks, facebook time. And blogging. [...]
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