Finding an approvable new drug is a long, expensive process that too often goes awry--and often, the rules we impose make things worse, and even tax policy. We should think about these numbers every time someone like Marcia Angell suggests that really,...

It is bad enough that Harvard-MGH is the home of Joseph Biederman, MD, with whom Senator Grassley had so much fun a while back. Biederman is still in the news. It is also the home of Andrew Nierenberg, MD, who was rash enough to take on Marcia Angell...

It is bad enough that Harvard-MGH is the home of Joseph Biederman, MD, with whom Senator Grassley had so much fun a while back. Biederman is still in the news. It is also the home of Andrew Nierenberg, MD, who was rash enough to take on Marcia Angell...

Many of us have been taught that depression arises, in part, from chemical imbalances in the brain. Apparently, there is no evidence to support that. Many of us thought that antidepressants work. Apparently, there is meager evidence to support that, too.

And since the FDA is also an office of the United States government, it's in the government's best interest to preserve one of it's most powerful industries. The former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, has been...

In addition, several ANAM developers testified at the panel's sole meeting and one even sat on the committee. "It just screams conflict of interest," said Professor Marcia Angell, a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine who is now a...