MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'healy'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:56 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5107644&cid=t_318430_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FbZl-aySdFfA%2F I’m rather shocked to hear tonight that Bernadine Healy, M.D., has died of a brain tumor. Dr. Healy, who turned 67 on Thursday, was the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health (1991-93). She also served as president of the American Red Cross, was  dean of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and was health editor of US News and World Report. Dr. Healy, a Cleveland Clinic cardiologist, was deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Policy under President Ronald Reagan. She was married to former Cleveland Clinic CEO Floyd Loop, M.D. I met Dr. Healy once, after she spoke at the Medical Group Management Association‘s annual conference in 2003. For someone as busy as she was, she couldn’t have been more gracious. I lost my job just a cou... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5107644 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:53:11 +0100 5107644 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4343316&cid=t_318430_140_f&fid=35772&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshutah.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F13%2Fi-will-write-to-the-medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency-asking-if-more-research-is-needed-into-the-drug%2F Citalopram Inquiry:  On 7 December 2010 Birmingham Coroner Aiden Cotter said he would write to the MHRA and ask if more research is needed into this drug.  The statement was made following an inquest into the death of a 42 year old mother of two, who had committed suicide in October 2010. Professor David Healy, [...] (Source: SEROXAT WEBLOG) SEROXAT WEBLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4343316 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:37:44 +0100 4343316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265682&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJr_njfecfxQ%2F By David RittgersThe House passed a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) yesterday, and it appears that the Senate will take up the measure sometime next week. Good. DADT should end. I’ve said so, and debated the issue with repeal opponent Stuart Koehl (posts 1, 2, 3, and 4). Most servicemembers I know (appropriate disclaimer here) already have a mindset of Don’t Ask, Don’t Care, and its time for official policy to catch up. We should note that a legislative effort is the right way to change the current policy. DADT is based on a law – 10 U.S.C. § 654 – enacted with the FY1994 National Defense Authorization Act. Some have argued (and here, and here) that President Obama could stop enforcing DADT by executive order. The President does have control over enlisted separations ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265682 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:40:28 +0100 4265682 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3603573&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FSA6hCAPXJyA%2F By David RittgersPresident Obama is sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the border with Mexico. This should not be viewed as an innovative solution; Bush sent 1,600 troops to the border under parallel circumstances in 2002. As Ilya Shapiro recently wrote, sending some Guardsmen is no substitute for substantive immigration policy reform. The National Guard, and the military generally, should not be seen as the go-to solution for domestic problems. Certainly the role they will play on the border will not be as offensive as policing the streets of an Alabama town after a mass shooting (which the Department of Defense found was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, but declined to pursue charges) or using a city in Iowa as a rehearsal site for cordon-and-search operations looking for weap... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3603573 Thu, 27 May 2010 02:13:47 +0100 3603573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3526725&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fheqs31Ut9lk%2F By adminBritain may have given the world freedom as we understand it (i.e. see The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns by Benjamin Constant), but you would not know it from the last prime ministerial debate that took place last Thursday. The candidates (Conservative David Cameron, Labour’s Gordon Brown and Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg) used the word “freedom” only 2 times. They said the word “free” 5 times, but all in the context of the supposedly “free” goodies, which they promised to lavish on the electorate. Words “responsible” and “responsibility” fared somewhat better (4 times). But the winning words were “fair” and “fairness” that were mentioned 22 times — almost always in connection with taxing the rich. Here is a typical example: Bro... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3526725 Mon, 03 May 2010 15:37:16 +0100 3526725 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3471772&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FMnaO7gg739U%2F By David BoazTony Blankley, former press secretary to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, exults in the Washington Times that Americans are waking up “to our heritage of freedom” and to the abuse of the Constitution: All the following acts have suddenly awakened Americans to their Constitution: (1) The nationalization of car companies and banks; (2) the subordination of the car companies’ legal bondholders to union bosses; (3) the creation of trillion-dollar slush funds (the stimulus package) used for, among other purposes, the corrupt purchase of congressional votes; (4) the mandating of individual health insurance purchase against the will of Americans; (5) the attempt to have Obamacare “deemed” to have been enacted, rather than actually publicly voted on by... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3471772 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:20:24 +0100 3471772 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3463578&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fw6MrqfWcBOg%2F By Jim HarperLast week, coincidence brought together a pair of worthy articles attacking the political adage that terrorism is an “existential” threat. Gene Healy debunked “existential” in his Examiner column. “Conservatives understand that exaggerated fears of environmental threats make government grow and liberty shrink,” he writes. “They’d do well to recognize that the same dynamic applies to homeland security.” John Mueller and Mark Stewart, meanwhile, have an article on Foreign Affairs’ web site titled: “Hardly Existential: Thinking Rationally About Terrorism.” They show that conventional assessment methods place terrorism so low on the scale of risks that additional spending to further reduce its likelihood or consequences is probably not justified. B... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3463578 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:14:28 +0100 3463578 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3429166&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTkO58KX2lDs%2F By David RittgersBrian Walsh of The Heritage Foundation and Paul Rosenzweig have a new book out, One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty. For an example of how our federal criminal laws have morphed into a leviathan that threatens the liberty of average citizens, take the case of inventor and entrepreneur Krister Evertson: In May 2004, FBI agents driving a black Suburban and wearing SWAT gear ran Evertson off the road near his mother’s home in Wasilla, Alaska. When Evertson was face down on the pavement with automatic weapons trained on him, an FBI agent told him he was being arrested because he hadn’t put a federally mandated sticker on a UPS package. A jury in federal court in Alaska acquitted Evertson, but the fed... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3429166 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:22:37 +0100 3429166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3220511&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FaCkqZa3u09U%2F By Chris Moody Cato experts give Obama’s State of the Union a video fisking. Are we watching the History Channel or something?  Because this new president sure does sound a lot like the old one. Time for the SOTU fact check:  Cato experts put some of President Obama’s core State of the Union claims to the test. Here’s what they found. Flashback to February 2009: Gene Healy on how “the president talks too much.“ During this year’s SOTU, President Obama criticized the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case. Today’s podcast examines the Court’s ruling. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3220511 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:44:38 +0100 3220511 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3189126&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FaxTtFN283XA%2F By Chris Moody Gene Healy on today’s election in Massachusetts: “If Republican Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts special election Tuesday, the Bay State will have its first GOP senator since the era when disco was king. And Brown will have the much-derided Tea Party legions to thank.” Why opportunistic politicians need to stop using times of crisis for their own ends and let the next one go to waste. George W. Obama? “Bush’s successor—who actually taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago—is continuing much of the Bush-Cheney parallel government and, in some cases, is going much further in disregarding our laws and the international treaties we’ve signed.” Can Google beat China? Cato’s Timothy B. Lee tackles the questi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3189126 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:02:39 +0100 3189126 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3139026&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FBY86I2qcA9M%2F By Chris Moody Michael Tanner says the difficult part of passing the health care bill has only just begun: “The bill must now go to a conference committee to resolve significant differences between the House and Senate versions. And history shows that agreement is far from guaranteed.” Get ready for Cash for Clunkers…the Home Edition. Gene Healy on the new decade: “Yes, it was a rotten 10 years for America. But cheer up: Things aren’t as bad as they seem, and there’s a good chance they’ll get better.” Will the market rise or fall? Richard Rahn: “The long-term outlook for the stock market is not good, and here is why. For the past 100 years, there has been an inverse relationship between changes in the size of government and the gr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3139026 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:23:23 +0100 3139026 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3100775&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgnDDjRXqvw8%2F By Ilya ShapiroFollowing Enron’s downfall, the federal government charged company CEO Jeffrey Skilling with “honest services fraud” connected to the alleged manipulation of Enron’s market value (and other securities irregularities).  This charge — also at issue in two other cases before the Court this term — is based on a statute which says, in its entirety: “For the purposes of this chapter, the term ‘scheme or artifice to defraud’ includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.” Skilling was convicted, and his conviction was upheld by the Fifth Circuit.  The Supreme Court agreed to review the application of the “honest services fraud” statute to Skilling (as well as the issue of potential jury bias stemming from pretr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3100775 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:07:06 +0100 3100775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984780&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F2qJlkHq0m8U%2F Things you might not want to know: Have you ever thought about how dirty the money in your wallet might be? The case for dropping out of NATO. Gene Healy on the “arrogance of power” involved in running for president these days: “What sort of person wants the job badly enough to spend years living out of a suitcase, begging for cash, glad-handing through primary states, and saying things that no intelligent person could possibly believe?” Doug Bandow: “The fall of the Wall, and the evil system behind it, deserves to be celebrated. Not just on Nov. 9. But every day.” Podcast: “A Looming Decision on Afghanistan“ (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984780 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:27:36 +0100 2984780 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908889&cid=t_318430_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F2grQIyMYetk%2F Why else? Well, there are other reasons to consider. Health benefits, for instance. Maybe a new indication. Or in this day and age of health reform, perhaps cost effectiveness. But that wasn’t the alleged case as revealed in testimony given during recent litigation involving birth defects associated with GlaxoSmithKline’s Paxil antidepressant (the drugmaker was ordered to pay $2.5 million). The interesting exchange below - in which David Healy, a controversial psychiatrist and consistent critic of antidepressant clinical trial data, was questioned - yielded this nugget: one of five reasons offered by Glaxo to investigators to conduct a study of Paxil was ‘image enhancement.’ You know, make the drug appear more desirable in the eyes of health care providers, primaril... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908889 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:30:02 +0100 2908889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2695605&cid=t_318430_140_f&fid=35436&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseroxatsecrets.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F12%2Fprofessor-david-healy-meets-with-the-mhra-to-talk-ssri-withdrawal-reactions%2F Notes of the 26 June 2009 meeting – thanks to Bob Fiddaman at Seroxat Sufferers. I find it unbelievable that all too many GPs still know next to nothing about withdrawal reactions from SSRIs. “Prof Healy considered that there was little evidence available on how to manage patients who had difficulty withdrawing from SSRIs. All agreed that this was a very difficult area to study as the management of the patient would differ depending on the patient.” Maybe if the drug companies would start by admitting there is a problem we could begin to look for some answers. Unfortunately all the drug companies take the same stance that Glaxo has with Seroxat/Paxil – problem, what problem?? Still, we should get some answers in the Autumn of 2010 – that’s when the High ... seroxat secrets... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2695605 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:50:15 +0100 2695605 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2368688&cid=t_318430_140_f&fid=35436&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseroxatsecrets.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F26%2Fhow-drug-companies-re-engineer-illness-to-keep-making-money%2F In this interview with Christopher Lane (from Psychology Today), David Healy outlines just a few of the ways way drug companies market their pills… David Healy, a former secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, is the author of over 120 articles and 14 books, including The Antidepressant Era, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, and Mania, a fascinating new book on the history of bipolar disorder. His criticism of drug-company practices has put him at odds with colleagues in psychiatry and pharmacology. At the same time, his undisputed expertise as a leading academic, researcher, and clinician gives him a unique perspective on patterns and problems in Anglo-American psychiatry. He recently agreed to answer a number of questions about the growing prevalence and expa... seroxat secrets... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2368688 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:28:49 +0100 2368688 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2211758&cid=t_318430_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FV4Tn4XvAT1c%2F Will President Obama follow through on his campaign promises about executive power and oversee a more modest presidency that recognizes constitutional limitations? Or will the new administration end up expanding the powers of the presidential office? Please join us Wednesday, February 25th at 12:00 PM to discuss the prospects and possibilities for the presidency in the Obama era. The forum will feature Louis Fisher, Specialist on the Constitution, Law Library of Congress; and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor, The George Washington University School of Law. It will be moderated by Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute. Reserve your seat for this free event today. Lunch will be served after the event. For those who cannot attend, the forum will be simulcast live online. (Source: Cato-at-liberty... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2211758 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:42:13 +0100 2211758 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1575496&cid=t_318430_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F326139909%2F Our very non-sleepy summer continues, on the homefront (Charlie’s good, though he looked a little resigned when told he has no school today and Friday, due to the 4th of July) and on the autism front: Buses that don’t know where they’re going, an autistic boy found walking after the highway—and some good news too. The first two items make me more grateful than ever that Charlie attends summer school in our town, at the middle school he’ll be going to in September, with the same teacher he’ll have, and on a bus provided by the county’s education commission. Every year we’ve considered sending Charlie to camp: It would have to be daycamp the first time (for one thing, I can only stand to worry so much; Charlie not having that much language, he ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1575496 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:00:28 +0100 1575496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1469760&cid=t_318430_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F298504380%2F To read an article about the MMR vaccine and autism in today’s Telegraph, you’d think there was plenty of reason for the “debate” to be “reignited” thanks to Senator John McCain talking about an “autism epidemic”; recent statements about US health officials being too quick to dismiss arguments about vaccine as a cause of autism by Dr. Bernardine Healy; the case of Hannah Poling, in which the government conceded that vaccines “aggravated” an underlying mitochondrial disorder in Hannah and led to symptoms of autism; and a recent poster presentation at IMFAR about a study in which 13 vaccinated monkeys showed “increased aggression, impaired cognitive skills and developmental delay” after receiving vaccines. Here’s... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1469760 Mon, 26 May 2008 17:09:48 +0100 1469760 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903792&cid=t_318430_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F161249505%2F It’s not clear who posted this pastiche of clips, but the message isn’t ambivalent - antidepressants can cause suicide and, in some cases, violence. The timing is interesting, too - this appears on YouTube (see below) just a week after a study is published in The American Journal of Psychiatry suggesting Black Box warnings on product labeling caused scrips to drop and suicides to rise. The video contains TV clips about the controversy, snippets of an FDA meeting about the drugs, and interviews with now-familiar critics, including Harvard’s Joseph Glenmullen and David Healy of the University of Wales. The video opens and closes with a 911 call in which a New Jersey teen can be heard threatening to kill herself. This is not for the faint-hearted, and it’s likely to up... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903792 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:29:05 +0100 903792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=797102&cid=t_318430_140_f&fid=35436&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseroxatsecrets.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F13%2Fpanorama-interactive-forums%2F The links below will take you to three Panorama interactive web forums that took place after broadcasts of the Seroxat programmes. They’re worth watching to see our good friend Alastair Benbow in full flow defending Seroxat as only he can… you also get to see Charles Medawar, David Healy and Andrew Herxheimer. 14 October 2002 11 May 2003 11 July 2003 (Source: seroxat secrets...) seroxat secrets... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=797102 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:00:08 +0100 797102 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=740487&cid=t_318430_140_f&fid=35436&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseroxatsecrets.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F17%2Fmanufacturing-consensus-adult-adhd-in-the-uk%2F The excerpt below is from David Healy’s Marketing Drugs and Changing Lives in the US… you can read more here. CONSENSUS CONFERENCES Consensus conferences aimed at producing guidelines for clinical practice came into existence in the late 1980s (Sheldon and Smith 1993). A range of bodies took up this apparently academic development. Within psychiatry, groups such as the British Association of Psychopharmacology and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, for example, produced guidelines on the treatment of a range of conditions from depression through to schizophrenia. This may have happened in part in an effort to establish a political profile. In a number of the organizations that produced guidelines, the influence of key individuals with links to pharmaceutical compa... seroxat secrets... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740487 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:09:50 +0100 740487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=569956&cid=t_318430_140_f&fid=35436&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseroxatsecrets.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F25%2Fpanorama-interactive-forums-watch-here%2F I’ve just been prompted by an email from a friend to post up these links to three Panorama interactive web forums that took place after broadcasts of the Seroxat programmes. They’re worth watching to see our good friend Alastair Benbow in full flow defending Seroxat as only he can… you also get to see Charles Medawar, David Healy and Andrew Herxheimer. 14 October 2002 11 May 2003 13 July 2003 (Source: seroxat secrets...) seroxat secrets... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=569956 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:07:33 +0100 569956 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=551462&cid=t_318430_140_f&fid=35436&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseroxatsecrets.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F18%2Fantidepressants-and-violence-problems-at-the-interface-of-medicine-and-law%2F I’ve made mention of this study in a previous post, but given recent events at Virginia Tech, I think it’s worth bringing up once more. Published on September 12, 2006, this study by David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer and David B. Menkes deals with an issue that cannot be ignored. “Recent regulatory warnings about adverse behavioural effects of antidepressants in susceptible individuals have raised the profile of these issues with clinicians, patients, and the public. We review available clinical trial data on paroxetine and sertraline and pharmacovigilance studies of paroxetine and fluoxetine, and outline a series of medico-legal cases involving antidepressants and violence. Both clinical trial and pharmacovigilance data point to possible links between these drugs and violent b... seroxat secrets... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=551462 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:14:22 +0100 551462