November 7, 2009
Abuse, Antidepressants, Antipsychotic, Big Pharma, Fraud, GlaxoSmithkline, News, Paxil, Psychiatrist
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BY JOHN DORSCHNER
jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com
Charles Nemeroff, an Atlanta psychiatrist who was the subject of a Senate investigation concerning huge sums he received from drug companies, has been named chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Miami.
Last year Nemeroff, as the top psychiatrist at Emory University, was the focus of an investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who said he was concerned about the millions the psychiatrist received from drug companies while conducting supposedly unbiased research for the National Institutes of Health on drugs made by the companies he was receiving money from.
On Thursday, Pascal Goldschmidt, dean of UM medical school, called Nemeroff “an exceptional psychiatrist and an exceptional scientist who has one issue in which he recognizes he made a mistake,” in not telling Emory how much he was getting from drug makers.
Goldschmidt said he had read investigative reports from Emory about Nemeroff’s activities and Emory found nothing to indicate that payments the psychiatrist received had in any way influenced his research results.
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November 6, 2009
Death, News, Psychiatrist, Videos
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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE— Army: Fort Hood shootings suspect is alive!! ; death toll from attack remains 12.
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FORT HOOD, Texas (Nov. 5) — A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and the violence was believed to be the worst mass shooting in history at a U.S. military base.
The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., when shots were fired at the base’s Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood.
November 6, 2009
Death, News, Psychiatrist
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November 06, 2009
Peter Slevin
The gunshots came out of the blue.
This photo from the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress website shows Nidal Malik Hasan, who is suspected of killing 12 people and wounding 30 in a shooting spree at Fort Hood military base in Texas on Nov. 5, 2009.
A U.S. Army psychiatrist, trained to treat soldiers under stress, allegedly opened fire Thursday in a crowded medical building at Fort Hood, Texas.
When the assault ended minutes later, the attack had become the largest mass shooting ever to occur on a U.S. military base. Twelve were killed, 31 wounded.
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