This post was going to solely focus on Glaxo's involvement in the AIDS-related drug tests on parentless children in a home for kids with HIV, known as theIncarnation trials. Sadly, news has just broke of yet moreshenanigansby Glaxo, this time from their Verona HQ in Italy. Glaxo,... Read more

A collection of five-question interviews. Ill be away from the Addiction Inbox office this week, attending the big TEDMED health and medicine powwow in Washington, D.C. In the meantime, heres a summation with links of the interviews Ive been doing recently in the five-question in... Read more

On prisons, pot, and the DSM-V. The Five-Question Interview series. Our latest participant is Professor Michael Farrell, director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre NDARC at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Before that, he was Professor of Add... Read more

One of my pet peeves was brought to mind by World AIDS Day. Not that I oppose finding a cure for HIV.I was a social worker when AIDS emerged in the eighties. I helped a young man with HIV who was kicked out of the loft in Greenwich Village which he had shared with his lover, and ... Read more

Interest in the diagnostic sector of the life sciences industry began to wane shortly after development of a test for HIV in the 1980s. However, the emergence ofmolecular diagnostics and personalized medicine coupled with the 2001 anthrax attacks and the SARS outbreak have helped... Read more