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Dr. Donald F. Klein M.D., D.Sc.


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July 2008: '“Having everyone stand up like a Boy Scout and make a pledge isn’t going to quell suspicion,” said Dr. Donald Klein, an emeritus professor at Columbia, who has consulted with drug makers himself. “The only hope to rule out bias is to have open access to all data that’s produced in studies and know that there are people checking it” who are not on that company’s payroll.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/washington/12psych.html

January 2008: "Dr. Donald F. Klein, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Columbia, said drug makers were not the only ones who can be reluctant to publish unconvincing results. Journals, and study authors, too, may drop studies that are underwhelming."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/health/17depress.html

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Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Columbia University Organization Jan 18, 2008

Articles and Resources

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Jul 12, 2008 Psychiatric Association Faces Senate Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties

QUOTE: After a series of stinging investigations of individual doctors’ arrangements with drug makers, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is demanding that the American Psychiatric Association, the field’s premier professional organization, give an accounting of its financing.

 New York Times
Jan 17, 2008 Antidepressant Studies Unpublished

QUOTE: The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs’ true effectiveness, a new analysis has found.

 New York Times