Can the Peace Drug Help Clean up the War Mess? (0)
4/21/10 •
I recently attended psychedelic medicine’s coming out party- a meeting of 1100 researchers and enthusiasts in San Jose, Calif. – and found the early data on MDMA (‘Ecstasy’) as an adjunct to talk therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder pretty compelling. Scientific American ran my piece on the study, which features a vet who says the therapy eliminated his PTSD symptoms.
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Ghostwriting “The Great Prostate Mistake” (0)
3/10/10 •
My first publication in the New York Times doesn’t have my name on it – but I’m proud of it nonetheless. It’s an Op-Ed about the dangers of P.S.A. testing that I penned for Dr. Richard Ablin, who discovered prostate specific antigen in 1970. The piece made it to the top of the “most e-mailed” [...]
The Melting Snows of Kilimanjaro (0)
11/03/09 •
The snows of Kilimanjaro are rapidly disappearing and will be gone by 2033, predicts the most detailed analysis yet of the iconic glaciers gracing Africa’s highest peak.
Drug Companies Used Physician Education to Push Pills (3)
10/20/09 •
Drug makers routinely exploited continuing education seminars as opportunities to market pills to doctors, drug company documents reveal.
Injections of Hope – Doctors Promote Offshore Shots but Some Patients Cry Foul (0)
9/02/08 •
Patients are paying tens of thousands of dollars for stem cell treatments overseas, yet there’s little evidence the shots do any good. My reporting for The Washington Post turned up dozens of stem cell clinics and plenty of unhappy patients.
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