Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... and objectivity (back story here , here , here , here and here . Nature Medicine spoke with Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the committee, about the probe. This is an excerpt … Nature Medicine :What are you hoping to accomplish? Grassley : NIH gives $24 billion worth of grants…The law requires the universities to have their researchers report outside income. We found out...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
I had been wondering what Grassley and Harkin had been doing since their YES vote on the pork bill. Here is an update for you. With all of their great problem solving, communication, and listening skills I think we can be rest assured that Iowans who need money will have a [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
This morning I wrote about the Democrat's chances in the US Senate in 2010. That got me thinking about Sen. Grassley, who is up for reelection in 2010. However, he will be 77 at that time and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
I want to pass along this e-mail alert from the Iowa Citizen Action Network: OCTOBER 7 - NATIONAL CALL IN DAY FOR HEALTH CARE FOR ALL The Iowa Citizen Action Network is leading the Health Care for America Now Coalition in Iowa that is urging comprehensive reform of our health care system [...]
Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox's regulators stood by as shrinking capital ratios and growing subprime holdings led to the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos., according to an unedited version of a study by the agency's inspector general. The report by Inspector General H. David Kotz was requested by Senator Charles Grassley ... Before it was released to the public...
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Charles Grassley has been on a roll lately. Now he’s a primary target of a U.S. Senate Finance Committee investigation into whether pharmaceutical money compromises the integrity of medical research and scholarship, an ethics controversy that has set the international world of academic medicine abuzz. Studies, speeches and articles can influence which drugs are prescribed for [...]
Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... afoul of NIH rules and so on. Minor stuff like that which has caught the notice of Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). Nemeroff declined to comment for the AJC story, but he sure had his defenders. "Tom Johnson, retired CEO of Atlanta’s CNN, said Nemeroff was able to treat his severe, chronic depression after other physicians failed. He called Nemeroff 'a brilliant physician.' "'I’m doubtful...
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
SEC officials redacted extensive portions of the agency’s internal watchdog’s report exposing its internally documented failures overseeing failed investment bank, Bear Stearns. But an unredacted version is published by Senator Charles Grassley, Senate Banking Committee Member who requested the...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Gary Weiss submits: Bloomberg today has a provocative article on the real causes of Bear Stearns demise, drawing from an unexpurgated version of an SEC report that was posted on the website of Sen. Charles Grassley. The SEC had, for some murky reason, removed significant details from the report it had released earlier. The unedited version sat on Grassley's website, unnoticed, until...
soulful sepulcher (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Charles B. Nemeroff is one of the most influential KOL's (Key Opinion Leaders) with the most conflicts of interest. Conflicted due to receiving funding from pharmaceutical companies and lining his pockets with the cash is just the tip of the iceberg that Senator Grassley has to chip away at. For a review look at the links below, while I gather my own thoughts. It's basically left me speechless,...
naked capitalism (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The public got a bglimpse of an unedited report on Bear Stearns failure because Senator Charles Grassley put the full version on the Internet briefly. The official version had significant deletions. From Bloomberg (hat tip reader Alex): U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox's regulators stood by as shrinking capital ratios and growing subprime holdings led to the collapse...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Multimillion-dollar ties between university psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies are just more evidence that self-regulation doesn’t work.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Two authors of the study, doctors Timothy E. Wilens and Joseph Biederman of the Harvard Medical School have been recently accused by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, of failing to report $1.6 million in payments from drug companies from 2000 to 2007. Both men denied doing anything wrong. They disclosed financial payments in the most recent study, including payments from companies that make...
soulful sepulcher (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... to his resignation pending the result of an inquiry into the allegations raised by Senator Charles Grassley. Mind you, I am not here to justify Dr. Nemeroff's bad behavior. To not disclose the payment of more than $10,000 a year from a drug company that makes a drug you are also studying with an NIH funded grant is clearly a violation of NIH policy (although not a violation of the law).Second,...
POGO Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
We appreciate the good reporting of Bloomberg in pointing out that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has posted an unredacted version of a recent SEC Inspector General report severely criticizing the agency for lax oversight of Bear Stearns and, implicitly, other...
